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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Simon Wright wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> tmo...@acm.org writes:
>>> =A0 =A0for Aligned_Char'Alignment use 16#1000#;
>>> ...
>>> alignment.adb:6:35: warning: suspiciously large alignment specified
>>> for "Aligned_Char"
>> =A0 =A0 I don't see it right now, but didn't someone say we want 8 byte
>> alignment, ie 2#1000#, not 16#1000#?
>
> I don't think so; milouz just wrote ALIGN_MASK.

I think it was I who gave 2**3 as an example value.  I was careful to
use a notation that minimizes the risk for typos and thinkos.

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