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From: Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: New to ada95: porting
Date: 2000/03/01
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> post the data structure for the dope vector and perhaps we can come up
> with something more concreate.

Not sure what your asking for here... what we use in ada our ada83
code that manipulates the the vector is as follows:

type Dope_Vector is
  record
    element_size : integer;
    low_bound   : integer;
    hight_bound : integer;
    array_size    : integer;
  end if;

The doc says the following:

an
  array(I_1, I_2, ... I_N) of element_type
has a dope vector as follows:

low addres (each cell a 32 bit entity)
    E_0 = element_size
    F_1 = I_1'first
    L_1 = I_1'last
    E_1 = (L_1-F_1-1) * E_0
    F_2 = I_2'first
    L_2 = I_2'last
    .
    .
    .
    F_N = I_N'first
    L_N = I_N'last
    E_N = (L_N-F_N-1) * E(N-1)
hi address

but our worst case is a 2-d version.