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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Array of bytes type
Date: 2000/05/21
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In article <oabV4.16593$wb7.1451403@news.flash.net>,
  "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> If you want your code to be compatible with implementations
> that still use the 1750A, you may want to consider using code
> that's compliant with Ada83. In this case, I would probably
> "roll my own" with my own definition of Unsigned_8.

An interesting product would be a conversion from Ada 95 to
Ada 83 to take care of those using "obsolete" processors for
which only Ada 83 compilers are available.

This would not be trivial, but it could certainly be done (the
-gnatG output of GNAT is an interesting starting point).

This might possibly be a viable option for some legacy programs.


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