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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion and alignment
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) writes:

> 13.9.5 requests "S'Alignment = Target'Alignment" (for source and target 
> of Unchecked_Conversion).
> 
> So, it appears impossible to keep several objects of arbitrary types in 
> an array of an array of System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Array (as these 
> alignments are not necessarily equal).
> 
> To bad! It would be right to lessen the Standard request to only that
> S'Address mod Target'Alignment = 0.

That's a good point.  You should send a comment to the ARG.

- Bob