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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: Unchecked conversion of arrays?
Date: 14 May 2004 03:39:28 -0700
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Bj�rn,

> I'm thinking Unchecked Conversion won't be reliable, because 
> if for example the byte array is packed and Wide String is not, then (on 
> a 32-bit machine) I'll get two bytes of garbage between every two bytes 
> of character data.

Wide_String is packed, says gnatpsta. I don't know if it is part of
the standard.

Unchecked_Conversion will check sizes for you, so I don't think you
need to worry about garbage.

You do need to remember about endian-ness, though.

Regards,
Wojtek