From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: record rep on tagged record question
Date: 1997/09/24
Date: 1997-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023680002409972226560001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3428278b.18967041@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net
In article <3428278b.18967041@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
>Shouldn't this be legal Ada 95? One of the three compilers I tried
>gives a "raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR" when I try to execute it. The
>message apparently comes from the attempt to elaborate
>"Picture:b.Child_Type", since neither the Ada.Text_IO in the main
>program nor the one in its exception handler produces any result.
>(The other two compilers both give "hi" results.) I've checked and
>Tag'Size for this compiler is 32, so an offset of 4 bytes seems
>appropriate.
Why are you writing a representation clause for a tagged record anyway?
Are you intending to do some I/O using this type? Have you looked at the
stream I/O facility - it may do what you want without the rep clause (read:
portability) headaches.
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1997-09-23 0:00 record rep on tagged record question Tom Moran
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