Re: Q: Memory management

["W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM>]

Hannes suggests
>    Pass_To_Assembler ( X ( X.all'First )'Address );

X.all'First and X'First should be identical.

X'Address and X(X'First)'Address should be identical, too, unless ...

Is it legal for an implementation to store strings the way the VAX writes
arrays of bytes?  With VAX Ada 2.0 when I declared

 type X is array ( ... ) of Byte;  -- Byte is range 0 .. 255 / 'Size = 8

 package Block_IO is new Direct_IO ( X )

 then a Put ( Item => ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ... ) resulted in the
 file containing 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7, ...

 I never checked whether strings did the some thing, nor did I check
 whether the addresses of the components were equally screwy.

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