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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO
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On 18 Lis, 02:16, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Surely not. Not all machines have 8-bits as any sort of native type. For
> instance, the Unisys U2200 (a 36-bit machine, with 9-bit bytes) used
> Character'Size = 9.

You have used present for "not all machines have" and past for "Unisys
used". :-)

Now let's synchronize these statements - what is the actual *current*
status of this niche? Is it still relevant enough in the industry to
justify standardization effort at the level of programming languages
and development effort at the level of user programs?
What would happen if we just assumed 8 as a common denominator for the
granularity of storage for any type (in particular Character'Size = 8)
and just moved on?

--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com