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On 08-Aug-14 10:56, Victor Porton wrote:
>
> But it is a hack.

How are you going to be able to tell which variant the subcomponent is 
though? The C union *doesn't* tag the varying part, so that information 
has to be kept elsewhere... or ignored completely.

> I propose to change ARM not to require a discriminant in this specific case
> (Unchecked_Union).

No.
Just no.
What you propose here would import from C weak typing -- if you want 
weak typing, why re you using Ada?