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Subject: Re: Representation clause of a discriminated record
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:13:07 -0700
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On 08/02/2016 10:04 PM, David SAUVAGE wrote:
> 
> What would be a valid representation clause for the following discriminated record ? (taken from the Ada wikibook [1])
> 
>    type Discriminated_Record (Size : Natural) is 
>     record
>        A : String (1 .. Size);
>     end record;

for Discriminated_Record use record
   Size at 0 range 0 .. 31;
end record;

if Integer'Size = 32. You can't give a representation for A because you don't
know it's size.

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