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Subject: Re: Questions about Unchecked_Conversion
Date: 1999/12/17
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In article <38593212_2@news1.prserv.net>,
  "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> In article <1e2w3op.j44mmjevrxz4N%claveman@inetworld.net> ,
> claveman@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
>
> >      Notice also that this is highly hardware dependent.  Use with
care.
> > However, don't avoid it because of this dependency when you really
need
> > it.
>
> No, UC is not "highly hardware dependent."  The semantics of UC are
> well-defined, and the conditions under which these semantics are
> guaranteed are listed in RM95 13.9 (5-11).

I think he meant the nature of the hardware dependant features make
the use of Unchecked_Conversion to lower your portability. For instance,
an Integer to byte array on a Big Endian Machine will produce different
results than on a Little Endian Machine.
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Jeffrey S. Blatt



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