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From: PForan <pforan@gmail.com>
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Subject: using the 'use at' feature inside a record?
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi all,

I have a question about the "use at" feature and how it can be used
inside a record to simulate C's unions. I often have an array of
bytes, as well as a string which is "use at"'ed on top of the byte
buffer, very useful as I can play with the data in any way I choose.
i.e.

byte_buf: array(1..100) of unsigned_8;
str_buf: string(1..100);
for str_buf use at byte_buf'address;

Is it possible to have something like this within a record?

TIA,
Phil