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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Ada Portability... NOT!
Date: 21 Nov 1994 16:19:01 GMT
Date: 1994-11-21T16:19:01+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aqh9l$o55@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ap9st$1mv@hydra.Helsinki.FI

In article <3ap9st$1mv@hydra.Helsinki.FI>, holsti@cs.Helsinki.FI (Niklas
Holsti) writes: 

|>                                                      Apparently the
|> compiler on the former system lets a record rep spec override an
|> alignment specified for the component types, but the present compiler
|> does not let you do that.

If this is the case, the original compiler is remiss.  A compiler must
reject representation clauses that it does not obey, and there is no way
to obey the given self-contradictory set of representation clauses.

--
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com



  reply	other threads:[~1994-11-21 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1994-11-18 21:04 Ada Portability... NOT! Capt. Britt Snodgrass
1994-11-19 16:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-21  2:11   ` Carlos Perez
1994-11-21 13:17     ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-21 23:56   ` Keith Thompson
1994-11-22  3:53     ` Robert Dewar
1994-11-23 12:49     ` Michael J. Meier
1994-11-24 19:21       ` R_Tim_Coslet
1994-11-20  1:33 ` Carlos Perez
1994-11-21  5:06 ` Niklas Holsti
1994-11-21 16:19   ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1994-11-21 14:59 ` Mitch Gart
1994-11-21 15:40 ` Michael J. Meier
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