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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

>... It is also apparently bad
> practice to rely on the representation, because I get the
> impression that some Ada compilers may ignore the representation
> clause.

Ada compilers cannot ignore rep clauses.

- Bob