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From: "Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)" <Christoph.Grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: AW: GNAT compiler switches and optimization
To: Warner BRUNS <Warner.Bruns@cern.ch>, comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
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Date: 2006-10-23T15:50:01+02:00

Warner BRUNS claimed:

> A problem with Ada is that the memory layout of a twodimensional array
is
> not specified in the Ada Standard.

That's wrong:
  Ada is row-first order         (1, 1) (1, 2) etc.,
  Fortran specifies column-first (1, 2) (2, 1) etc.

This is what the pragma Convention is for.