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Subject: Re: Default rep specs for record types - documented??
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From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:26:49 -0500, Anonymous Coward  
<bogus_addy@bogus_domain.net> wrote:

> In article <slrndmn0ub.v5k.lauri@dev.diter.com>, Lauri Ora wrote:
>>
>> Some versions of GNAT also has option -gnatR1 (List rep info), which
>> gives you similar output:
>
> That is a very useful option.  I wish I had known about it sooner.  Is
> there a similar switch for C code?  It would make interface coding so
> much easier if I could generate this output for C types before
> constructing the corrosponding ADA interface.


But if you order the components the same in both languages, and use pragma  
Convention (C, ...) on the Ada side, the Ada record layout will match the  
C struct layout.

- Ed