From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13f10cac2d21b84f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 18:55:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.onecall.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this a GNAT bug??? Date: 1 May 2002 20:55:21 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <9gBz8.4053$451.2378814669@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <4519e058.0205010908.7ebc64fd@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1020304523 4746 192.135.80.34 (2 May 2002 01:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 01:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23382 Date: 2002-05-01T20:55:21-05:00 List-Id: In article <4519e058.0205010908.7ebc64fd@posting.google.com>, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes: > robert_s_quinn@yahoo.com (Robert Quinn) wrote in message news:... >> tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<9gBz8.4053$451.2378814669@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>... >> > This is not good Ada. [snip] There is no reason to >> > assume an unchecked conversion from System.Address to an access >> > type will work as you hope. > > ...unless your vendor docs say it will. It will render your code > non-portable, but sometimes you might not care. Personally, I'd go for > the portable way though. Portability in this regard is not so important if the rest of the program is specific to a particular environment for other reasons.