-- Copyright 2012-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -- the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or -- (at your option) any later version. -- -- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -- GNU General Public License for more details. -- -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with this program. If not, see . with Pck; use Pck; procedure Foo is type Table is array (Positive range <>) of Integer; type Table_Access is access Table; type Object (N : Integer) is record Ptr : Table_Access; Data : Table (1 .. N); end record; My_Object : Object := (N => 3, Ptr => null, Data => (3, 5, 8)); -- Same as above, but with a pointer to an unconstrained packed array. type Byte is range 0 .. 255; type P_Table is array (Positive range <>) of Byte; pragma Pack (P_Table); type P_Table_Access is access P_Table; type P_Object (N : Integer) is record Ptr : P_Table_Access; Data : P_Table (1 .. N); end record; My_P_Object : P_Object := (N => 3, Ptr => null, Data => (3, 5, 8)); begin My_Object.Ptr := new Table'(13, 21, 34); -- STOP1 My_P_Object.Ptr := new P_Table'(13, 21, 34); Do_Nothing (My_Object'Address); -- STOP2 Do_Nothing (My_P_Object'Address); end Foo;