Re: C-style 'union' in Ada?

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9li279$mhm$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>, Brian Catlin says...
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>This is very similar to what I'm doing.  I was trying to avoid unchecked 
>conversion.  I had assumed that there would be a better way.

Well, converting between types is pretty much what Unchecked_Conversion is in
the language for. It may look a bit ugly and scary, but that's because the
activity you are doing is *also* a bit ugly and scary (if sometimes nessecary).
Consider it truth in advertising. :-)

Note that since Unchecked_Conversion is a function, an assignment of the value
will occur. That's why we usually perform it on pointers when the target data is
large buffers.

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