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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13703514e3723cbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-17 14:35:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.161.0.203!newsfeed.rt.ru!news.rosnet.ru!newsfeed.sovam.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B7D8E43.A3FDBBA9@sympatico.ca> From: Ken Burtch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Variable sizes for record fields References: <9l7qon$d78$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <8eI27ybFqL0Y@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3B7D6E0B.19366C2A@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:36:03 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.230.37.239 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 998083789 64.230.37.239 (Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:29:49 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:29:49 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12075 Date: 2001-08-17T17:36:03-04:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > Another hint : > > For records that have arrays sized by discriminant(s), it is best to declare > those arrays starting from 1. Otherwise you'll have sizing difficulties, because > you won't be able to use an expression within the array range to compute the > last subscript, within the range. Nor will you be able to declare a null array using a range of 1..0. -- Ken O. Burtch: System Manager in a Box / Lintel : Pegasoft http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft : R.R.#1 Bio: 35;Bsc,UI,Lang,Games;Toons,Elves,SF,Pizza;Xian : Jordan Station, ON ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Canada L0R 1S0