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Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
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On 2018-10-16 12:18, AdaMagica wrote:

> OK, I stay corrected. But I still claim that it would be extremely unfair of a compiler not to follow this advice (A'Address = A (A'First)'Address with increasing addresses for further components).

It is a real pain when writing storage pools that must do some 
bookkeeping around allocated objects. There should really be 
X'Allocation_Address there in addition.

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