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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Comparing Access Types
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:30:49 -0500
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I wrote:

> If "=" lies, then the Ada implementation is simply wrong.

There were more than one Ada compiler for the 8086,
and I'm pretty sure "=" on access values worked
properly.  It's really not hard to get it right -- in
fact I think the compiler would have to go out of
it's way to get it wrong.

- Bob