From: sparre@meyer.fys.ku.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen)
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/17
Date: 1997-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Feb17.181818.3508@news.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rcawwsedshp.fsf@quasimodo.enst.fr
Laurent Pautet (pautet@inf.enst.fr) wrote:
|^^^^^^^^^^
| Because it doesn't apply to Ada :-) For instance:
|
| XDR says :
|
| The representation of all items requires a multiple of four bytes (or
| 32 bits) of data.
|
| LRM says :
|
| For composite types, the Write or Read attribute for each component is
| called in a canonical order ... Read and Write should use the smallest
| number of stream elements needed to represent all values in the base
| range of the scalar type.
^^^^^^^^^^
Is there anything that prevents the "stream elements" to fill 32 bits?
If I read 13.13.1 in the LRM correctly, then there's absolutely nothing that
prevents type Stream_Element from being declared as "mod 32".
Greetings,
Jacob
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-07 0:00 fixed point types over an interface Allen Krell
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-11 0:00 ` nassera
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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