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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with representation clause
Date: 1997/12/09
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Jeff wrote in message <348CE883.1CEC@bigfoot.com>...
>Fabrizio Castrotorres wrote:
>  You are running into an 8-bit alignment problem with your first
>  array declaration. The compiler is assigning each element of the
>  array as an 8-bit quanity. Right off hand, I cannot think of a
>  quick fix. If this is a hardware interface, I would redefine the
>  declarations to access the status 8 bits at a time.


Jeff's answer is absolutely wrong:  the declaration
   type Global_Integrity_Array_2 is array( Slot_Number, Slot_Number ) of
      Measurement_Status_Value;
   pragma Pack(Global_Integrity_Array_2);
yields a size of 1152 bits.