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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Exchanging objects between programs with different inheritance
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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