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From: "Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:55:50 +0200
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> What do you expect by reading the source code line? What does really
happen?
> Why can this remain in production software for years?

The semantics is that it is an unsigned like any other unsigned, except its
capacity is different.
And I would do capacity checking before this affectation, anyway.

> 'guess'. No more questions.

That's a bit of a nasty reaction. You don't have to be this arrogant.
I myself don't use this type of code often, and I don't have any standard
right there.

The closest thing to a ref manual I got here, MSDN, says that for aligning
on a int boundary, you have to specify a bitfield size of zero, so it must
imply that other bitfields are packed, which sounds logical.