Re: How to convert record?

[byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)]

"Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil> wrote in message news:<mailman.1004557367.26087.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: byhoe@greenlime.com [mailto:byhoe@greenlime.com]
> 
> > You are wrong. Try compile the following example and you will get 14
> > and 16 for each.
> 
> I'm not wrong.  Your posts on this thread said nothing about requiring
> it to be 11 bytes.  You were asking how to convert it to a POSIX IO_Buffer.

You are wrong in another way. :) Joseph asked to convert it to POSIX
IO_Buffer, not me, Adrian!

> What I was saying is, if ALL YOU WANT TO DO is send and receive it across
> homogeneous platforms then you don't need to worry about the size.  Let
> the system, via 'size of the object, do it for you.  The compiler will 
> do what is more efficient for it's processing.  There's no reason to
> work against it unless you have to.
> 
> If you are sending it to a device that requires it to be 11 bytes, then
> that's a different issue.  And of course a rep spec and pragma pack are
> going to make a difference in the size, but that wasn't the issue either.
> 
> Your thread on "Size and pack" only led me to believe you expected 11
> bytes, but got 14.  NOT that it HAD to be 11.  Expecting one thing and
> getting something else does not imply a requirement.
> 
> So, which is it?  Does it have to be 11, or are you just sending it to
> an equivalent peer system.

OK. My apologies to the wrong pointing. It's my fault but I knew
Joseph is working on a similar project like mine (we are colleagues :)
and my instinct immediately jumped to the conclusion without
thoroughly going through your post properly. Hey.. Take it easy, I am
not written in Ada! :,)