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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Subtypes do not Statically Match
Date: 1999/07/01
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In article <377A8C1A.6EFE0FF7@boeing.com>,
  John Harbaugh <john.s.harbaugh2@boeing.com> wrote:

>    type Object(Max : Positive) is tagged record
>       Component : aliased String(1..Max);
>    end record;
>
>    type String_Ref is access all String;
...
>    function The_Handle(Obj : access Object) return String_Ref is
>    begin
>       return Obj.Component'access;
>       --Error: object subtype must statically match designated subtype
>    end;

Why don't you just use the routines in Ada.Strings to perform this
function? I don't see anything you are doing that couldn't be done that
way, and you wouldn't have to debug the translation routines.

--
T.E.D.


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