From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Union record inside an other record - trouble
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:56:16 +0300
Date: 2014-08-08T22:56:16+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ls3a0s$keb$2@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Y%8Fv.396518$ic5.40026@fx21.iad
Shark8 wrote:
> On 08-Aug-14 10:56, Victor Porton wrote:
>>
>> But it is a hack.
>
> How are you going to be able to tell which variant the subcomponent is
> though? The C union *doesn't* tag the varying part, so that information
> has to be kept elsewhere... or ignored completely.
For records interfacing with C it SHOULD be ignored completely. Because it
is C.
>> I propose to change ARM not to require a discriminant in this specific
>> case (Unchecked_Union).
>
> No.
> Just no.
> What you propose here would import from C weak typing -- if you want
> weak typing, why re you using Ada?
I want weak typing on request, to interface with C, but remaining in Ada.
--
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 15:36 Unchecked_Union record inside an other record - trouble Victor Porton
2014-08-08 16:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-08-08 16:56 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 18:52 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 19:56 ` Victor Porton [this message]
2014-08-08 20:06 ` Pascal Obry
2014-08-08 20:09 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 20:12 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 20:22 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 20:28 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 21:07 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 19:52 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 19:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-08-08 19:21 ` Per Sandberg
2014-08-08 20:01 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 21:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-08-10 7:25 ` Per Sandberg
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