From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,e615e5c9d121e052 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.180.100.74 with SMTP id ew10mr1697654wib.7.1358654411741; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:00:11 -0800 (PST) Path: i11ni8363wiw.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.83.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nrc-news.nrc.ca!News.Dal.Ca!news.litech.org!news.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: From 16 bit to 32 References: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:27:54 -0500 Message-ID: <85d2x6uln9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oeL47kiyUkrB7WgOxyaI4sK1Mgs= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 2ccb450f5d7ede029e66101007 X-Received-Bytes: 1491 Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2013-01-15T17:27:54-05:00 List-Id: Scott Loyd 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. -- -- Stephe