From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada array contiguity.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:28:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tstbm6$doua$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tst8h6$de2q$1@dont-email.me>
Le 19/02/2023 à 14:34, Rod Kay a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I've been told that Ada array elements are not guaranteed to be
> contiguous unless the 'Convention C' aspect is applied.
>
> Is this correct ?
The strength of Ada is that it protects you from all implementation
details, thus allowing compilers to choose the most efficient
implementation. Therefore, the answer is yes.
(BTW: try to find a definition of "contiguous". At byte level? At word
level? What if the element does not fill a byte?)
--
J-P. Rosen
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-19 13:34 Ada array contiguity Rod Kay
2023-02-19 14:28 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2023-02-19 14:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-19 15:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-02-19 17:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-02-19 17:54 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-19 19:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-02-20 7:12 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-02-19 22:02 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-03-01 13:22 ` Rod Kay
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