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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Size of a pointer to a tagged record
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news01+Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk (Steven Murdoch) writes:

> If I take out the "Parameter_Access(...)" I get the following error message:
> lua.adb:172:35: expected type "Parameter_Access" defined at lua.ads:13
> lua.adb:172:35: found type "System.Address_To_Access_Conversions.Object_Pointer" from instance at line 36
> so it seems that the result of To_Pointer is Object_Pointer rather than Parameter_Access.

Oh yeah, you're right.  I had forgotten how A_T_A_C works.
Sorry about that.

> Sorry, that's what I meant. 32 byte addresses would be a rather larger
> address space that would be necessary :-)

;-)

- Bob