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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Universal Integer in TO_ADDRESS call
Date: 1999/05/30
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In article <01beaa3e$0e05fbc0$9b2bb6c7@alesia>,
  "Vincent P. Amiot" <godzilla@mozilla.com> wrote:
> the 'conversion' to universal integer is as follows:
>
> 	Integer'Pos (X)
>
> Hope it pulls the trick for you ;-) ...
>
> Regards
>
> Vincent Amiot / Aonix

Right, I missed this possibility, but Vincent is absolutely
right, this should work. It is very peculiar code, hard to
imagine any normal Ada situation where one would want this
conversion, but here it may be just the ticket. Note that
you can do this with any integer type.



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