From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b60a2e8329f4e64
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Received: by 10.180.19.194 with SMTP id h2mr1551371wie.0.1358514250913;
        Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:04:10 -0800 (PST)
Path: 
 o9ni5095wio.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT 4.4.5 Record Bit_Order Endian issues
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:04:09 -0500
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Message-ID: <wccbocmabhy.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
References: <20bda3de-b033-4b4e-8298-2ac47701b814@googlegroups.com>
 <85hamiulsn.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <lyfw21v24l.fsf@pushface.org>
 <85bocoqxis.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
 <9961f0a1-aa2c-47d5-be84-77e495ea2a0f@googlegroups.com>
 <85a9s64y8u.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1358514250 23199 192.74.137.71 (18 Jan 2013 13:04:10
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:04:10 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:a+hdMgfueWN62m2vgLxss0nICIc=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: 2013-01-18T08:04:09-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

>      component_clause ::=
>          component_local_name at position range first_bit .. last_bit;
>
> But I could find no definition of "position"!

The very next paragraph defines the syntax:

    position ::= static_expression

Then 13.5.2 talks about the Position attribute.

I agree that the RM is confusing in this area.
It's partly my fault.  :-(

- Bob