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From: Claude SIMON <claude.simon@setra.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada And Alternate System Architectures
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The ARM define a package named System.Storage_Elements in which a type
Storage_Element :

type Storage_Element is mod <implementation-defined> ;
for Storage_Element'Size use Storage_Unit;

Storage_Unit is a constant implementation defined : the number of bits per
storage element.





Gary Scott a �crit :

> Hi,
>
> A very naive question...does the Ada standard adequately address
> non-8-bit byte computers?  The Fortran language standard committee
> consistently avoids defining anything that relates to a specific
> computer architecture implementation (because what if 6-bit character
> systems one day become common again...).  At a very high level, how are
> machine specifics addressed?