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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: String parameters to exported routines - What should a compiler
 do?
Date: 1997/06/07
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Date: 1997-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Bob Duff said

<<>Here is an example:
>
>  procedure S (Item : String);
>  pragma Export (C, S);
>
>Should this be legal or should the declaration of S be rejected?  
 
IMHO it should be legal.
>>

and then goes on to mumble about what it might actually mean :-) :-)

In my view this should be illegal. One could supply default bounds, e.g.
in this case 1 .. Natural'Last, but I do not consider this helpful. If you
want to deal with the type

  subtype Big_String is String (Natural);

then it is better to do so explicitly