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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Portability... NOT!
Date: 21 Nov 1994 16:19:01 GMT
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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.

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com