Re: Simple program to find average of 3 numbers

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Robert A Duff wrote:

> The Size clause has no effect on the base range.

 From a language lawyer point of view, I guess that is true, just not 
all that helpful.  In Ada 83 some compilers did allow a 'Size clause to 
influence representations.  It was the easiest way to deal with the 
"junk" for Character'Size use 7; in (Ada 83) package Standard.  And as 
long as you were dealing with that to pass the ACVC tests, might as well 
actually try to do something useful with it.  Of course, on the 
compilers that cared, very few implemented all the possible integer base 
types.  (Ada/SIL did support Integer_2 through Integer_16 plus (32-bit) 
Long_Integer as potential base types, but would choose Integer (16-bits) 
for all smaller types absent a size clause.

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