Unchecked conversion of arrays?

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Let's say I have a Wide_String that I need to convert to an array of 
bytes. Each byte will of course contain half a Wide_Character, with the 
other half in the next byte. Will I have to copy one character at a time 
or is there a faster way to do this with representation clauses or 
something? I'm thinking Unchecked_Conversion won't be reliable, because 
if for example the byte array is packed and Wide_String is not, then (on 
a 32-bit machine) I'll get two bytes of garbage between every two bytes 
of character data.

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Björn Persson

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