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Subject: Re: Size of a pointer to a tagged record
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> One thing you might think about is taking 'Size on the Ada side,
> converting that to bytes (using System.Storage_Unit), and passing
> that to the C code at some point.  The C code might be able to
> use that size, or else assert that it is correct.

Would 'Max_Size_In_Storage_Elements be relevant here?