From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d939a7e1280607b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steven Hovater Subject: Re: Representation clause in records? Date: 1999/02/06 Message-ID: <36BC1760.B1F55E8C@mediaone.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441307775 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: lwnws01.ne.mediaone.net 918295783 24.128.19.33 (Sat, 06 Feb 1999 05:09:43 EDT) Organization: Northeast Region--MediaOne MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 05:09:43 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The only rep spec I"ve seen is an alignment clause at the beginning of the record, e.g. (best I can recall...) type foo is record for foo'address use at mod 32; begin blah : integer16; more_blah : integer16; end record; cheers, Steve Keith Thompson wrote: > Corey Minyard writes: > [...] > > (5) component_item ::= component_declaration | representation_clause > > (6) component_declaration ::= > > defining_identifier_list : component_definition [:= default_expression]; > > > > I am playing around with ASIS and I was to the point of handling the > > representation clause here. My question is: What is the representation > > clause specified in (5)? > > If I'm not mistaken, the grammar permits a representation clause here > only to allow for the possibility of implementation-defined > representation clauses. There are no language-defined rep clauses > that can appear in place of a component declaration -- and I don't > think any current implementations support such clauses. > > If this is correct, you can probably get away with ignoring rep > clauses within record declarations. If it isn't, I'm sure I can count > on someone to point it out. > > -- > Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <*> > San Diego, California, USA > Will write code for food. -- Steven Hovater svh@rational.com Software Engineering Consultant Phone/fax:781-676-2565/2500 Rational Software Pager: 888-906-2209 83 Hartwell Ave, Lexington, MA Amateur radio: AA1YH