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From: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Record rep specs for private components
Message-ID: <1635@petsd.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 13:06:12 GMT
References: <523@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joseph M. Orost)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <523@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.UUCP writes:
>If type a.aa is private, then its underlying implementation should be
>unknown outside of package a. This means that it should be impossible
>for another program unit to specify how much space an instance of this
>type should take up. [Of course, package a could supply operations
>which could provide alternative representations of known sizes, and
>these could be used in other program units.]
>
>In short, if the rep spec is legal Ada, it should not be, and should
>be fixed in Ada 9X.

According to AI-00551/02 (DRAFT):

"If a component type is a private type, the size allowed in a component
clause for the type is determined by applying the above rules to the full
declaration of the private type."

I agree.

				regards,
				joe

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