From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,438f2856ab36a026 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: 83/95 issue, bad code or compiler bug Date: 1998/11/24 Message-ID: <3659f675.17489793@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 414981403 References: <3654cef4.21572221@news.pacbell.net> <735903$qa2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36587057.292493@news.pacbell.net> <73cql5$g4i$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 911865831 206.170.2.62 (Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:03:51 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:03:51 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >since the number is known >to be in the range 0..15, it is fine for the generated code >to load only the low order byte How about store? eg, if the RAM containing the two bytes initially contained 2#0101010101010101# would it be permissible, do you think, for Rec.X := 7; to result in 2#0101010101010111# or 2#0101010100000111#? And what if we are talking about memory mapped IO, where an access is important, even if what is being stored is a zero.