From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,61006929d3e14455 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!skymaster!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:27:00 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <35f054ea.0410101150.25bec2f5@posting.google.com> <35f054ea.0410121044.bf19fea@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: s5.feed.news.oleane.net 1097687220 15514 195.25.228.57 (13 Oct 2004 17:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:07:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <35f054ea.0410121044.bf19fea@posting.google.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5162 Date: 2004-10-13T18:27:00+02:00 List-Id: skidmarks a =E9crit : > I misspoke, perhaps sarcastically. I don't want to change pointer siz= es > and you have gone far to explain what I'm seeing. Although the reason= > for including the dope vector as part of an Access Type eludes me, th= e > explanation I understand. (The elusion is because it seems just as > reasonable to 'point' to a dope vector when specifying an access type= > rather than including the dope vector as the Access Type.)=20 It is not always possible to have the dope just before the array. For example, you can point to a slice of a string... --=20 --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr