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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: 'Size hack for enumerated types
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:02:49 +0100
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Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

> It could be able to meaningfully reject the code, only it knew the C
> function profile. But what it known about the C function profile is
> only what is provided in our pragma. Certainly the C function profile
> which we provide is compatible with itself :-)
>
> So, the C code is compatible with some Ada function profile, but not
> necessarily with one we provide.

To paraphrase, if your code is wrong it won't work properly.