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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Enumeration representation clause surprise.
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:09 +0200
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Mike Silva a �crit :
> I wonder then if this is an error at all.  IANALL, but if the program
> makes available your specified values when queried with the proper
> mechanism (in this case, unchecked conversion), then I don't see what
> difference it makes how it stores the representations in raw memory.
> 
> I'd welcome other comments on the validity or non-validity of this
> view.
> 
It would be interesting to add a pragma Volatile to the variable. It's a 
way of saying that you are serious about what's written in memory...

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