Re: Learning Ada-What does this mean.

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

prashna <vashwath@rediffmail.com> wrote:
: 
: It is defined like this "type I_INTEGER is range -2**31 .. 2**31 -1;
: The error it is giving is "component "DATE_32" overlaps "WORD"".

As Tom has explained, you will need to know how many bits
your integer type must at least consume, and then how many
storage elements you need to place all the bits in them.
(Whether theses storage elements are octets, 9-bit bytes,
32bit words, ... should be found in your compiler documentation 
or some file in the compiler distribution, or ...)
This will give you the offset of the second component, that is its
first storage element, in the record.

Maybe you can try to persuade your employers to obtain
a copy of "Ada as a Second Language", 2nd edition, N. Cohen,
which discusses the issues very clearly.

-- Georg