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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Conversion of Access Types Question
Date: 1999/01/27
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Matthew Heaney wrote ...
|But, are there any
|compilers that actually do have a different representation?

Mine (ThoughtWing Ada, out not soon I'm afraid), when targetting Intel 386
etc. It uses 32-bit offset for pool-specific access types, and 48-bit
segment+offset for general access types.

|Couldn't
|there have been another way to enable this alternate representation,
|such as a pragma?


Or a representation clause. Yes.

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