Re: can a record contain an array whose bounds are not known at compile time?

Re: can a record contain an array whose bounds are not known at compile time?

[David C. Hoos]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yu, Liyang" <Liyang.Yu@delta.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: can a record contain an array whose bounds are not known at compile
time?


> Hi,
>
> I need to use an array in a record and this array's bound is not known at
> compile time. Can Ada do this? Can someone give me a example about how to
do
> this or any reference that I can use?
>
Better (in my view) than the use of discriminated records suggested by
others is to first declare an access type to the array type, then use a
record
component of the array access type.  E.g, if the array is an array of
Integers

type Integer_Array is array (Natural range <>) of Integer;
type Integer_Array_Access is access all Integer_Array;
type MyRecord is record
   Integers : Integer_Array_Access;
end record;

> Thanks!
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