Re: Question of data type

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Probably the answer is "You shouldn't" :-)

I'd be suspicious that the original poster is trying to do something he
shouldn't as well. I have seen this a lot when a C programmer tries to pass
records as parameters to subroutines.

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"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
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> Bigg K wrote:
> >
> > X is a record.  If I want to assign X'Address to Y, what data type
(integer,
> > float, etc) does Y have to be?
>
> The type of X is immaterial. The simple answer is, you can't.
>
> I know this is technically the wrong answer, but I've seen so much code
> recently that unnecessarily uses addresses that I suspect that this
> answer is conceptually correct.
>
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