From: Bryce Bardin <bbardin@home.com>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem?
Date: 2000/01/14
Date: 2000-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <387F83E2.DA4CFC32@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85mqht$6sq$1@fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net
Werner Pachler wrote:
>
> I am a little surprised!
>
> As far as i remember UNCHECKED_CONVERSION refused the
> unchecked conversion between 2 different sized elements (Ada8x).
>
> Is this new in Ada95?
> Is this the new way of "Ada" thinking (to be similar to "C")?
>
It is implementation-dependent. (Think about truncation and
padding: which end has the data, what padding bits?) I don't
recommend *ever* using UC for different sizes.
> Regards,
> Werner
>
Bryce
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-13 0:00 Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem? Mike Silva
2000-01-13 0:00 ` reason67
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Jim Rogers
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-01-13 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Werner Pachler
2000-01-14 0:00 ` reason67
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin [this message]
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Wrap-Up (was Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem?) Mike Silva
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem? Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David A. Cobb
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
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