Re: System.Address'Size - not a static integer expression?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3CBDBE76.F4FF3905@despammed.com>...

> You would find it surprising if there were a statement
> in error in the RM?  Weren't most of the statements in
> the RM written by humans?

I would be more than surprised, I would be astounded. It is
not an error that anyone would make who knew what was going
on, and it is an error that would be so obvious as to be
immediately caught (in particular, I looked very carefully
at everything that was said about Size). Furthermore, checking
every reference to Size in the RM yields nothing remotely like
your memory.

So here's the bottom line:

Robert, who helped write and review this manual is quite certain
there is no statement about this (furthermore Robert has never
been confused as to the meaning of static). Furthermore if there
were any such statement, it would be clearly and obviously wrong
to anyone understanding the meaning of static expression.

Wes insists on his memory, but cannot and/or will not provide
any evidence. Furthermore, he admits that he was seriously
confused about the meaning of static (my best guess is that
Wes saw something about the value of Size being dynamic, and
since at that time he thought that static was the opposite of
dynamic (it is not) he probably got confused :-)