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On 10/13/2010 05:07 AM, ramon_garcia wrote:
>
> - Vendor dependency: there are few vendors of Ada products. It is
> neccessary in practice to use vendor extensions to write useful
> software. For instance, I must depend on array accesses in GNAT
> containing both the addess and the bounds of the array. In addition, I
> also depend on the implementation recomendation that array'adress
> points to the first element. I also need the extension
> object'unrestricted_pointer.

If you think you need to rely on this, it is extremely likely that there is 
something you don't understand.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You a big nose have it."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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