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From: Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the
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Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:33:36 -0400
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While you guys are at the business of creating new numeric types for 
Ada0y, how about one of my favorite types - some form of a saturated 
math type? It would be nice to have support for the basic math types 
that would saturate instead of wrap-around or overflow/exception. How 
difficult or inefficient would that be to implement?

MDC


> 
> 
> It also seems like a problem that is easy to fix in Ada0Y, if not just 
> by getting compilers to do the right thing.
> 
> You want to be able to say:
> 
> type Unsigned is range 0..2**32-1;
> for Unsigned'Size use 32;
>