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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <dale-238AFE.21195615102001@mec2.bigpond.net.au>, Dale Stanbrough
says...
>
>In article <9qedad$i1p$1@newstoo.ericsson.se>,
> "Zebylon" <sebastian.madunic@esavionics.se> wrote:
>
>> If you have an system.address variable, an data length variable and an array
>> of Unsigned_32. How can you move the data ranging between the address and
>> the address+data_length into the array?
..
>Convert the address to an access type using an instantiation of the 
>generic

But a *really* smart Ada developer will never get him/herself into this
situation in the first place. Instead, you pick better types, that don't need to
be converted. In *rare* circumstances something like this may be unaviodable.

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