From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7ba3a3c7efe3bd X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Adress => Access: types for unchecked conversion have different sizes Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:16:33 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1300058197 4142 69.95.181.76 (13 Mar 2011 23:16:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:16:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19119 Date: 2011-03-13T18:16:33-05:00 List-Id: "Martin Krischik" wrote in message news:op.vr9z56ucz25lew@macpro-eth1.krischik.com... > Am 13.03.2011, 04:32 Uhr, schrieb Randy Brukardt : > >> 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.