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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Exchanging objects between programs with different inheritance hierarchies
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:23:32 GMT
Date: 2002-11-13T18:23:32+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccof8tfhwb.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DD29333.5070600@acm.org

Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Steven Deller wrote:
>...  Using unchecked_conversion depends
> > on the tags being integral to the
> > record structures.  On GNAT they are not, so the code fails.

Is this really true?  I thought all Ada compilers store the tag field as
a field in the record (although not always at the same offset)?  What
is GNAT doing that messes up your unchecked conversions?

Maybe I'm missing your point.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3DC93287.2EA290F0@myob.com>
2002-11-13  2:19 ` Exchanging objects between programs with different inheritance hierarchies Steven Deller
2002-11-13  6:05   ` Jim Rogers
2002-11-13 15:54     ` Simon Wright
2002-11-13 17:44       ` tmoran
2002-11-14  6:29         ` Simon Wright
2002-11-13 17:59   ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-13 18:23     ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2002-11-13 23:17       ` Steven Deller
2002-11-13 12:18 Grein, Christoph
     [not found] <200211131218.NAA13957@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de>
2002-11-13 17:22 ` Steven Deller
2002-11-13 18:12   ` Robert A Duff
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