Re: for x'address or variant

["kat-Zygfryd" <6667@wp.pl>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> "kat-Zygfryd" <6667@wp.pl> writes:
> Nick's solution looks pretty good to me, in general anything which
> uses arrays indexed by (1..2) rather than some problem-specific index
> like Nick's, or which relies on 'Address, is at best suspect!

If you say so, I just thought that using a component
would be at least an instruction or two faster than
indexing an array [but I need the array solution also
in some places].
Anyway it could be useful to enable use of unrestricted
variants in Ada 2005, I guess just that programmers using
the feature would need to know what they are doing.
(Which is quite certain since Ada programmers are
very careful, geneticly ;P )

example:

record
    case not_needed_selector is
    when sth => B32: Integer;
    when sth => B8_1,B8_2,B8_3,B8_4:Byte;
    when sth => array(1..4) of Byte;
    end case;
end record;

or something alike, no more explicit typecasts needed in such case

Zygfryd