Re: Forcing default representations

[mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!emagnuso@uunet.uu.net (Erik Magnuson)]

In article <9307221834.AA03070@eight-ball.boeing.com> crispen@eight-ball.boeing
.com (Bob Crispen) writes:
>By the way, here's a semi-trivial question:  Does anyone know of
>a real Ada compiler that doesn't assign internal values of integers
>(forget the size for a minute) beginning with zero as a default for
>enumerations?  I know you can't rely on it, but is there actually
>a compiler or a machine that doesn't do it the obvious way?

What gets my goat is that there are still compilers marketed for
embedded systems that do not recognize when a enumeration rep spec
repeats the canonical values that they do not have to generate the
(expensive) code to translate between the values!

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Erik