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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:57:29 +0300
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rep Specing Variant Records
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Date: 2009-09-17T09:57:29+03:00
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Robert Love wrote:
> First, thanks to all who answered my question.
> 
> My big concern about the presence of a discriminant in the derived type 
> is that I'm shipping the record out via ether net to a C client to 
> read.  The C program will not tolerate the extra discriminate.

Have you looked at pragma Unchecked_Union (B.3.3)?

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