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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Q re pack & aliased
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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>I suspect that GNAT 3.15 (based on GCC 2.8.1?) now considers the minimal
>addressable unit as a 'machine word' (32 bits), so it won't alias an =
object
>(type) with components whose size isn't (a multiple of) this.

Well, as I tried to demonstrate here at least the example code works
if the components of the record are byte sized.


Vinzent.