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From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: Zero_Fill pragma, other proposition
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:50:16 -0500
Date: 2004-07-21T14:50:16-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j_6dnbpCJPSBVGPdRVn-jA@gbronline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.32.1090401708.416.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> I don't want users to access the spare fields.
> I don't event want users to see the spare fields.

Good choice.  I can imagine some cowboy writing

   -- maintain my miracle worker reputation ....
   Message.Spare := My_Secret_Data;

and on the other side

   -- they'll never figure out how I made this work
   Contraband := Message.Spare;


-- 
Wes Groleau
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-21 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-21  9:20 Zero_Fill pragma, other proposition Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-07-21 10:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-07-21 15:07 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-21 19:50 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-21 13:17 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-07-21 16:50 Lionel.DRAGHI
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