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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Non byte-aligned components in GNAT rejected
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mcq95@earthlink.net (Marc A. Criley) writes:

> GNAT 3.14p on W2K is rejecting one of my rep specs, stating that "large
> component must be on byte boundary".

Same message from GNAT 3.15a1 on WinNT 4.0.

I suspect putting characters on non-byte boundary is just not going to
happen. I tried adding 'pragma Pack' to the array, and using a
non-character element type for the array; no luck.

> If I can't find a way to put these definition together, I'll have to shift
> to an "accessor" approach where I just stuff and retrieve bits from an
> undifferentiated bit buffer.

I think that's what you'll have to do. Sorry :).

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