Re: Pragma Suppress for Bit_Order warnings

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

richtmyer@cox.net writes:

> The Gnat RM (section 6.8) states:
>
>     "Since the misconception that Bit_Order automatically deals with
> all endian-related incompatibilities is a common one, the
> specification of a component field that is an integral number of bytes
> will always generate a warning. This warning may be suppressed using
> pragma Suppress if desired."
>
> I have coded:
>
>    for Data'Bit_Order use High_Order_First;
>    pragma suppress (xxx);
>
> and I get two warning lines for each bit definition. What is the "xxx"
> I need to suppress the compiler warnings?

I think that's a bug in the documentation.  Pragma Suppress has nothing
to do with suppressing warnings -- it suppresses run-time checks.  To
suppress warnings, use pragma Warnings.  There are many useful options
-- look it up in the docs.  There are also command-line switches
to control warnings.

- Bob