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Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem?
Date: 2000/01/14
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In article <85mqht$6sq$1@fleetstreet.Austria.EU.net>,
  "Werner Pachler" <W.Pachler@mobilkom.at> wrote:
> I am a little surprised!
>
> As far as i remember UNCHECKED_CONVERSION refused the
> unchecked conversion between 2 different sized elements (Ada8x).

Depends on the compiler really. I have seen warnings and I have seen
errors in Ada83 in the case of 2 different sizes. I would think that if
the abstraction is "unchecked conversion" then checking size would be a
violation of that abstraction (albeit helpful).
---
Jeffrey Blatt


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