From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/06
Date: 1996-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <318E4462.51E4@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4matk0$4k@usafa2.usafa.af.mil
Chris Warack <sys mgr> wrote:
>
> In article <3188AF51.1F1A7590@escmail.orl.mmc.com>, "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
> |> I do see what you are getting at, but I don't think adding a "dirty
> |> bit" to every varaible is a serious consideration. (At least, the
> |> systems programmer in me HOPES it isn't).
>
> Unfortunately, that's about the only option possible.
Well, Ada 95 has a solution for those cases where the type doesn't occupy all
values of the underlying hardware representation, so if you want this for
all variables, just make sure your types always have more bits allocated
than needed, and you're set!
(see: pragma Normalize_Scalars, 'Valid).
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-29 0:00 To Initialise or not Steve O'Neill
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Chris Warack <sys mgr>
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-11 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-05-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Patrick Richard Wibbeler
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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