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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Ada bench : word frequency
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On 24 Mar 2005, at 19:52, Martin Dowie wrote:

> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>>    function To_String (X : Form_Ptr) return String is
>>       S : String (X'Range);
>>    begin
>>       for I in X'Range loop
>>          S (I) := Character'Val (X (I));
>>       end loop;
>>       return S;
>>    end;
>
> For faster code isn't this a case where an overlay is safe?...

Maybe. I never remember if the RM guarantees that the overlay 
(unchecked conversion?) works here. Because this function is used only 
at the end to output the results I didn't care. But someone should test 
it ;-)