From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.68.68 with SMTP id u4mr22955188obt.50.1428420475499; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.98.116 with SMTP id n107mr255185qge.11.1428420475343; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!m20no1539734iga.0!news-out.google.com!a41ni8qgf.1!nntp.google.com!z60no155010qgd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:27:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0817bf94-0550-40c4-ba5f-f2ecd6383dbb@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.99.9.146; posting-account=s89PEgoAAABHs2ETFyOrCeTQVQJAfzKq NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.99.9.146 References: <0817bf94-0550-40c4-ba5f-f2ecd6383dbb@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GNAT "alignment value must be positive" From: marciant@earthlink.net Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:27:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25450 Date: 2015-04-07T08:27:55-07:00 List-Id: Additional information: (1) The alignment clause is for a record type, (2) Ada95 mode is being used, Additional analysis: GNAT's sem_ch13.adb code unconditionally rejects zero for the alignment and= thus seems to unconditionally not support items not necessarily aligned to= byte boundaries. If that is the case then it would help if such a decisio= n was documented in GNAT's implementation specific documentation: section 1= 4 of the GNAT reference manual. (Maybe it is elsewhere I missed it. Did I?)