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,ab36006a122bb868 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Overlay allowability Date: 2000/05/08 Message-ID: <3917147C.8C6EE153@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 620776357 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390D94FB.D23390D4@lmco.com> <390DCBB2.CE2C1609@averstar.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 957813885 702 141.199.8.164 (8 May 2000 19:24:45 GMT) Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2000 19:24:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-08T19:24:45+00:00 List-Id: Keith Thompson wrote: > > Tucker Taft writes: > > "Marc A. Criley" wrote: > [...] > > > N : Natural; > ... > > N'Size is probably going to be 31 on your typical 32-bit computer. > > Actually, I think N'Size is more likely to be 32, though Natural'Size > is likely to be 31. A standalone object (like N in the example) is > almost certain to occupy a whole number of storage units, and to be > aligned on a storage-unit boundary. Right, I was confused. Only a subtype or a component would typically end up with a size like 31. A stand-alone object would almost certainly end up with an integral number of storage elements (except perhaps on a bit-addressible machine like the old and bizarre Burroughs B-17 [I think that was its number]). Of course rounding up doesn't hurt... (trying to salvage some amount of dignity here ;-). > > -- > Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com > San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> > Welcome to the last year of the 20th century. -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Commercial Division, AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) (http://www.averstar.com/services/IT_consulting.html) Burlington, MA USA