From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5d4ade2fd8fd67c6 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Legit Warnings or not Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:07:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <531193e0-3305-4292-9ed8-0176226c1d00@x12g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <1rx6dwrxmc81p.eazb4fjqztox$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="7996"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mjGvzej/f9iQmOBntXNkG6NFWiwuzaHM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JqEopF4VjexjI7YHAE8OFXRmyYM= sha1:pIw/OlciSQ4w9wMj5ssUkKbu+EM= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:21291 Date: 2011-07-23T12:07:28+01:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > But it should not. Programmers expect types constructed by the > compiler be contiguous in their private view. Maybe, but if they have no reason to care (eg, they're not at a communications boundary) why should they care? I might have all sorts of expectations about what the compiler might do (vide recent discussions in this thread).