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: 103376,7e29322ee367c19d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bryce Bardin Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem? Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F83E2.DA4CFC32@home.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572704663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <85mqht$6sq$1@fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net> X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,en-US,fr,fr-BE,fr-CA,fr-FR,fr-CH,de,de-AT,de-DE,de-CH,it,es,es-AR,es-CO,es-MX,es-ES Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.alsv1.occa.home.com 947880929 24.7.50.190 (Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:15:29 PST) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:15:29 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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