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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Character/Integer Conversion
Date: 2000/04/04
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> One more trouble with the above declarations is that there
> is no guarantee that the address of an array is necessarily
> the address of the first element. The above declarations
> may simply result in overlaying dope vectors with peculiar
> results!

This should not be a problem anymore with Ada 95, as there is an
implementation advice saying that an array's 'Address should point to
the contents, not the dope.