Re: Legit Warnings or not

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:37:48 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> On 07/20/2011 03:30 PM, Anh Vo wrote:
>> package Warnings_Legit is
>>
>>     type Warned_Person (Size : Positive := 10) is -- Warnings issued
>> here
>>        record
>>           Name : String (1 .. Size);
>>        end record;
> some compilers not only won't give any warning,
> but a declaration of
> 
> X : Warned_Person;
> 
> will not raise Storage_Error on those compilers, either.
[...]
> The harder way only allocates enough space for the current value, and
> actually changes the space of the object if the size is changed through
> an assignment.
> 
> Some who have gone to the trouble to implement the 2nd way say they
> think it was the intention of the language designers.

Interesting. Do you mean they allocate a new object?
Then how do they handle the following declarations   
   X : aliased Warned_Person;
   Y : access Warned_Person := X'access;
when X.Name is resized?

- Brian