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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Ada 83 Pointers question
Date: 1999/01/21
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In article <36A658CA.97438B6@cacd.rockwell.com>,
  aalowe@cacd.rockwell.com wrote:
> Now since we are safety critical, we have been forbidden
> from using a new clause and since the 'Access does not
> exist yet, the engineer created a unchecked conversion to
> go between a System.Address and a boolean pointer.   Thus
> when the 'snapshot' is created, it then references the
> boolean pointer element to the array of the record to the
> 'Address of the boolean component.  Whew!

I am having trouble understanding the above paragraph. As
best I understand it, it says

"Since we are safety critical, we have been forbidden from
doing this in the safe and reliable way, and have instead
rigged up a highly non-portable unsafe way of doing things
that may or may not work, but it seems to work OK, so we
guess it's OK, though it leaves us feeling uncomfortable".

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