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Timo Warns wrote:
> Can someone confirm following bug?
> 
> 
> --------- test.ads --------- 
> 
> with System.Storage_Elements; use System.Storage_Elements;
> package Test is
>     type A is
> 	record
> 	    I: Integer;
> 	end record;
>     B: A;
>     J: Integer renames B.I;
>     for J'Address use To_Address(0);
> end Test;
> 
> --------------------------- 

You certainly should get a meaningful error message, so report this to 
ACT.  But if you expect the compiler to be "fixed" so that this 
compiles, think again.  The best you can expect is to "fix" the program 
so that the value 0 is non-static, and get an error at run-time.


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                                                        Robert I. Eachus

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insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. 
Will he aim at your enemy?� -- from the Laiden novels by Sharon Lee and 
Steve Miller.