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Subject: Re: Default rep specs for record types - documented??
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In article <op.szqzwuei5afhvo@localhost>, Ed Falis wrote:
> 
> 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.

Is that necessarily true?  I've noticed some cases where pragma
Convention (C,...) does not stretch an enum to 32 bits the way it
should, so there seems to be an element of chance that causes me to
distrust it.