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Subject: Re: How to extract range from array
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:14:37 -0500, Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>  
wrote:

> subtype My_Range is Integer range My_Array'Range;
>
> This suggests that arrays cannot have more elements than Integer'Last.
> Which cannot be true.
>
> What am I missing?

That the above was an example.  You could also do:

subtype My_Range is Interfaces.Integer_64 range My_Array'Range;
subtype My_Range is Interfaces.Unsigned_64 range My_Array'Range;

or any other integer or modular type that is used to define the index of  
My_Array.

- Ed