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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Help needed in port to GNAT95 from verdix
Date: 1998/05/16
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J-P Rosen asks

<<Wouldn't Byte'Base'Size tell you the truth ?
>>

In practice, probablyt yes for integer types, but definitely NOT for
enumeration types which are their own base types, and definitely not
for composite types.