Re: Unchecked_Conversion

[tmoran@acm.org]

>risks about using Unchecked_Conversion? Is it a better approach  the address
>attribute?
   Unchecked_Conversion shows in the code everywhere you do a conversion,
while 'address allocation only shows up at the declaration.
   Unchecked_Conversion lets the compiler at least warn you if the two
representations are of different size, while 'address leaves you strictly
on your own.
   'address in some cases may surprise you with initialization code.

>I'm a beginner ADA programmer (what a wonderful language!) and I've a
  As others have pointed out, it's relatively rare in Ada to do this
sort of thing.  As a beginning Ada programmer, are you perhaps just
using a pre-Ada technique?  There may be a better "Ada way" to do what
you need.