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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5140c483354bfcc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is correct way to pack records Date: 18 Nov 2004 07:37:22 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <3fc90377.0411171620.7a3bcfd9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1100781488 98398 212.85.156.195 (18 Nov 2004 12:38:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:38:08 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <3fc90377.0411171620.7a3bcfd9@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6265 Date: 2004-11-18T07:37:22-05:00 wom@inel.gov (Warren O. Merrill) writes: > is there a pragma (or other method) that will do the same thing > GUARANTEED not to change the field order to accomplish the packing > without having to write all these record representation clauses? As others have pointed out, there is no standard pragma to do what you want. One solution is to write a tool based on ASIS that writes the record representation clauses for you. Auto_Text_IO (which I wrote) would be a good starting point for that tool; see http://www.toadmail.com/~ada_wizard/ada/auto_text_io.html -- -- Stephe