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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: Valid Attribute and Unchecked Conversion
Date: 1996/10/03
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I could be wrong, but I thought that Unchecked_Conversion is erroneous in
_any_ case.  I heard that the first validated Ada compiler, Ada/Ed, took
advantage of that fact and generated code to raise Program_Error wherever
the program tried to make use of Unchecked_Conversion.

Is this true, and if so, has any of it changed with Ada 95 and the new
'Valid attribute?

Someone please enlighten me.

- John Herro
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