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From: Bob Horvath <bob@horvath.com>
Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you
 need!!)
Date: 1997/10/31
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB wrote:

> Bob Horvath <bob@horvath.com> writes:
>
> > Peter Seebach wrote:
> >
> > > Speak for C++.  :)  C has a bit of history, but is really fairly
> > > consistent.  :)
> >
> > Hmmmm.  How big is an int?
>
> On most platforms, exactly as big as an integer in Ada. None of those
> languages guarantee the exact size of their (predefined) integers. :-)

The parenthetical and the emoticon are keys here.  Only the predefined INTEGER type
in Ada is implementation dependant.  You can define integer types based on ranges
and are guaranteed consistent results across compilers.  This is unlike int in C
which can be of many sizes, or Java where the size of an int is defined by the
language.

I had forgotten about the implementation dependencies with the INTEGER type in Ada
because you would be a fool to use it when you can so easily create an integer type
using a range constraint.