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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: 'Size hack for enumerated types
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On 07/06/2014 04:01 PM, Victor Porton wrote:
>
> I see no reason for Increment function to work well with Convention => C, it
> seems that you are lucky with your compiler.

Clearly you don't understand Convention C.

> After all Flag_Type and enum flag_type may be of different size!

No, they may not. Convention C means the Ada compiler should represent the type 
exactly as the (targeted) C compiler would represent the equivalent C type.

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Jeff Carter
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