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: 103376,8247c32bb1260c74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-22 09:08:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsbo.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsfeed.cineca.it!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Q re pack & aliased Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:08:32 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: <3EA56900.70102@crs4.it> References: <20030420134018.651050df.david@realityrift.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1051026835 26875 156.148.2.163 (22 Apr 2003 15:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 2003 15:53:55 GMT User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: fo, da, no, sv, is, fr, de, en- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36348 Date: 2003-04-22T15:53:55+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > I'm just trying to write portable Ada. The problem isn't in the access, > it's in the declaration - Gnat won't accept it. "packing" 24 bits objects > shouldn't be all that hard on a byte oriented (x86 Windows) machine. x86 (with x different from "80" - and maybe also "802") is not all that byte oriented. Jacob -- "Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks" -- Mitre Corp.