Re: Record representation : components order

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Yannick Duch�ne wrote:
> Stephen Leake wrote:

> > If your application requires a specific component order, you must
> > specify the order in a record representation clause.
> >
> > Anything else is compiler dependent.

> And so the two document pointed in the second part of this thread
> are wrong ? Finally if its true, the RM does not miss any details
> and one must strictly rely on it and nothing else.

You should note that the reference manual also refers other documents.
For example does the pragma Convention implicitly refer to the
specifications of other languages/compilers.  And "pragma Convention
(*)" is an implicit record representation clause, which lays out the
type as language/compiler "*" does it.

Things aren't always as simple as they may seem.

Greetings,

Jacob
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