Re: [newbie] simple(?) data structures

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <10267207.GmbXj46X37@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I allways thought that:
> 
> My_Function (My_Data ( 20 .. Data'Last))
> 
> was the answer to that problem. And I find that a lot more elegant then a
> pointer. Of corse the compiler might still us a pointer internally.

Of course the resulting machine code (not necessarily the compiler)
internally _will_ use a pointer.  But that machine code will also
use base-2 arithmetic, without requiring the programmer to deal in
base-2.  The resulting machine code will use numeric addresses,
while letting the human programmer continue to use symbolic names
for the very same routines.

The purpose of a compiler is to make the relationship of the programmer
to the machine code more trouble-free.