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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
Date: 1 Nov 2001 19:39:53 -0800
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"Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message news:<yDgE7.1022$kw.476665@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net>...
> I tend to avoid 'component size since a lot of my code needs to compile
> on Ada 83 and Ada 95. The pragma pack followed by the confirmatory
> 'size clause on the overall array should force the compiler to do what I
> want and
> if it does not (because it ignores the pragma) it will reject the final rep
> spec on the array.
> 
> So the final 'size is not redundant.

Right, my point was that the final 'Size is redundant *if*
you specify the full representation, but of course if you
omit the Component_Size clause you have not fulfilled this
precondition.