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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Endianness and Record Specification
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Date: 2012-12-04T17:31:51-06:00
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"Anh Vo" <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:8c726f83-c972-4435-8f48-88ae57cfa8cb@googlegroups.com...
> <<As indicated by Stephen, the gnat-7.1-preview has implemened this 
> feature. Indeed, I tested it out and it worked as advertised. This is > 
> one of the third best features added to Ada 2012.>>
>
> <It's not an Ada 2012 feature, AIUI, but a GNAT feature>
>
> You are right this feature is not part of Ada 2012 addition. Since this 
> feature is extremely useful in practice, I wish it was the feature of Ada 
> 2012.

Then propose it for the next version of Ada (whenever that will be). Send a 
message to ada-comment explaining why you find the feature "extremely 
useful". If no one asks, the odds that it will be included are quite 
small...

                                             Randy.