Re: From 16 bit to 32

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Scott Loyd <loyd.scott@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the representation clauses were originally used as a debugging
> aid so they knew where all the right bits were instead of worrying
> about how pragma pack would arrange things, and I think the addresses
> were grouped in as a matter of completeness.

If you have to worry about "where the bits are", you must be sharing
those bits with something outside Ada.

> I don't see any reason to keep them around from where I am standing
> either so I may just remove them all as you suggested.

This is not consistent with what you said above!

Unless the original authors were worrying for no reason, always
possible.

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