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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Zero_Fill pragma
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:00:26 +0100
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Nick Roberts wrote:
> The pragma is not intended to affect any of the bits that are
> used to represent a value. In a composite type, you sometimes
> get 'gaps' in between components (or possibly at the edges),
> of 'unused' bits. The pragma is intended to cause these
> unused bits to be initialised to 0 whenever the composite
> object as a whole is initialised. It is not intended to affect
> the initialisation (or reading or updating) of any of the
> components.

What about hardware/interface specs that require '1' not '0'?.. ;-)