From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Generics - Difference between ADA and Modula--3
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:10:48 +0000
Date: 2001-02-07T13:10:24+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A814958.AE0E524C@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn98049v.155.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de
Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> These days I heavily use pointers in native Ada, because I have a fixed
> Storage_Array which needs to be reinterpreted by different record types.
Why not try something like this:
X : array (1..Zillions) of Byte;
Y : Magic_Record;
for Y'Address use X'Address; -- remember about alignment, too!
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2001-01-30 4:48 Generics - Difference between ADA and Modula--3 John Baltomoire
2001-01-30 16:04 ` Mark Carroll
2001-02-02 18:35 ` David Starner
2001-02-05 20:51 ` Mark Carroll
2001-02-05 21:46 ` David Starner
2001-02-06 0:36 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 22:46 ` Pat Rogers
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2001-02-07 13:10 ` John English [this message]
2001-02-12 20:38 ` Mark Carroll
2001-02-05 23:12 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 23:50 ` David Starner
2001-02-06 0:03 ` David Starner
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2001-02-07 14:52 ` Ted Dennison
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