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From: nabbasi@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: System.Address_to_Access_Conversions
Date: 1998/07/14
Date: 1998-07-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ogieq$qlo@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ofqvs$alm@hacgate2.hac.com

In article <6ofqvs$alm@hacgate2.hac.com>, "David says...

>  Typically you will want to use a record representation clause to
>make the memory layout correspond to the harware requirements.  Using a
>tagged type in such a sitiuation is not a good idea, because the tag is a
>"hidden" data field within the record which certainly will have no
>correspondence with the hardware-required memory layout.
>

I read somewhere that the tag position within a record is always defined,
it is the first element always, right? not sure what's its size, I assume
it is an address to someother tag related information somewhere else, so its
size is also known, right?

Nasser




  reply	other threads:[~1998-07-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-13  0:00 System.Address_to_Access_Conversions jsanchor
1998-07-13  0:00 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Stephen Leake
1998-07-14  0:00   ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions jsanchor
1998-07-14  0:00 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Anonymous
1998-07-14  0:00 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Pascal MALAISE
1998-07-14  0:00   ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions jsanchor
1998-07-14  0:00     ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-14  0:00       ` nabbasi [this message]
1998-07-14  0:00         ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Robert Dewar
1998-07-14  0:00         ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-15  0:00           ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions jsanchor
1998-07-15  0:00             ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-26  0:00         ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Matthew Heaney
1998-07-26  0:00           ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions nababsi
1998-07-26  0:00             ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Charles Hixson
1998-07-26  0:00             ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Charles Hixson
1998-07-26  0:00               ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Robert Dewar
1998-07-26  0:00             ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Matthew Heaney
1998-07-26  0:00               ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Robert Dewar
1998-07-26  0:00                 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions nabbasi
1998-07-26  0:00             ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Robert Dewar
1998-07-14  0:00       ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions jsanchor
1998-07-14  0:00         ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions David C. Hoos, Sr.
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1998-07-15  0:00 System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-07-26  0:00 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Matthew Heaney
1998-07-27  0:00 System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-07-28  0:00 ` System.Address_to_Access_Conversions Stephen Leake
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