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: 103376,38ceb882eed41e1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-12 01:38:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.251.151.101!opentransit.net!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Size and pack Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:37:48 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3bc6aba7.2750655@news.demon.co.uk> References: <9ff447f2.0110100005.2503bb00@posting.google.com> <9ff447f2.0110102224.5c470e2c@posting.google.com> <3bc55ea1.3939494@news.demon.co.uk> <3BC59C8E.BADA210D@Raytheon.com> <3bc5c72d.30703258@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1002875879 nnrp-12:25468 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14365 Date: 2001-10-12T08:37:48+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:00:37 GMT, "Pat Rogers" wrote: >> There is a differenc between supporting it and doing anything useful >> with it, e.g. GNAT 3.12a2 or whatever it was that my last place had >> for Solaris was quite happy for you to say: >> >> for x'bit_order use a_order_first >> >> but blew up when you tried >> >> for x'bit_order use b_order_first >> >> (Can't remember which way round a and b were!) > > >That has changed since that (now quite old) version. That may be so, but the point was that you can't guarantee that a compiler will always behave as you think it should.