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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: GNAT for a PPC Mac OS X machine
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:07:13 +0100
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On 18/04/2011 18:08, in article 9139g4FbnoU1@mid.individual.net, "Niklas
Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:

> Bill Findlay wrote:
>> On 18/04/2011 16:28, in article 9133l8FtmtU1@mid.individual.net, "Niklas
>> Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bill Findlay wrote:
>>> 
>> ]>> The problem now is a portability issue.
...
> 
> Bill, have you tried putting the record representation clause before the
> 'Size clause? That might help the compiler.

I gave up on trying to make the unchecked conversion portable and wrote my
own transfer functions, as you wisely suggested, Niklas.

Following that change the port of ee9 now passes its self-test procedure,
successfully running a dozen different KDF9 programs on the G5 Mac.

Thanks for all the suggestions in this thread.

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Bill Findlay
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