Re: Learning Ada-What does this mean.

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

vashwath@rediffmail.com (prashna) writes:

> Hi all,
> 1)Have a look at following piece of code and pls let me what does it
> mean?
>    type T_MEM_IO is
>       record
>          INT_1    : T_INTEGER;
>          INT_2    : T_INTEGER;
>       end record;
>    for T_MEM_IO use
>       record
>          INT_1 at 0 range 0..31;
>          INT_2 at 1 range 0..31;
>       end record;

This is a representation clause (see RM.13). It is used to layout the data
in memory.

> 2)The code shown above is compiling perfectly when compiled using
> tartan compiler(on AIX), but giving error when compiled using gnat(on
> windows 2000).Why is it so?

Hard to tell without the T_INTEGER definition.

Pascal.

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