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Martin Krischik wrote:
> BTW: In an Ada dialect with a precise collector Unchecked_Convertion between
> Access and Address/Integer are likely not to work any more.

Never did work very well--at least not portably.
There is no requirement for an access type to
actually be the address of the object.

Interesting bugs when some C person makes that
assumption, and luckily it works.  Then two years
later, he/she is gone and you change compilers.....

-- 
Wes Groleau

A pessimist says the glass is half empty.

An optimist says the glass is half full.

An engineer says somebody made the glass
        twice as big as it needed to be.