Re: 'Base

["Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>]

Martin Dowie wrote:
>
> Sorry Matt - you must be ill or something as you're a wee bit "off base"
> with your answer to this one!
[snip]
> It isn't -42 .. 42 but the 'First .. 'Last or the underlying integer
> representation. In this case (with ObjectAda) -2147483648 to 2147483647.


I should have said that T'Base'Last is *at least* T'Last, of course it
can be larger.

However, this doesn't undermine the my point that you can only depend
on having the range guanteed by the RM, in this case -42 .. 42.

So yes it's true that your base type might include all of the values in
a 32 bit range, but that fact is irrelevant.  The range specified in
the RM is the only range that matters.