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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Adress => Access: types for unchecked conversion have different sizes
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:16:33 -0500
Date: 2011-03-13T18:16:33-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iljj8l$41e$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vr9z56ucz25lew@macpro-eth1.krischik.com

"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message 
news:op.vr9z56ucz25lew@macpro-eth1.krischik.com...
> Am 13.03.2011, 04:32 Uhr, schrieb Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>:
>
>> No, that is a lousy way to handle this sort of problem, as is this code.
>
> That for you insight.  Just, you did notice that we talk about the GNAT 
> compile compiling itself here, did you?

I did, so it is of course true that portability is less important. But why 
use lousy Ada design in any Ada code? The only thing I can think of is that 
it was designed for Ada 83 -- but that doesn't make much sense for GNAT 
code.

                          Randy. 





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-13 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-12 15:08 Adress => Access: types for unchecked conversion have different sizes Martin Krischik
2011-03-12 17:00 ` Edward Fish
2011-03-12 17:05 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-13  9:35   ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-13 11:57     ` Simon Wright
2011-03-13 13:03       ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-13  3:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-13  9:47   ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-13 23:16     ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2011-03-14  7:26       ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-14 18:40         ` Simon Wright
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