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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Record representation
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:14:46 +0100
Organization: BAE SYSTEMS
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Is there anything that could be done (quickly ;-) by the ARG for Ada200Y to
do something about this common pain in the *ss?

package Record_Rep is

   type A is record
      I : Integer;
   end record;
   for A'Size use Integer'Size;

   type Index is new Integer range 1 .. 10;

   type AA is array (Index) of A;
   for AA'Size use A'Size * Index'Last;  -- Not allowed!!!!!

end Record_Rep;

Surely the language could be made smart enough to support this? This can be
a real maintenance nightmare to change.

-- Martin