From: ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: Higher precision and generics
Date: 20 Mar 1995 16:33:17 GMT
Date: 1995-03-20T16:33:17+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3kkaod$lvg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3kg124$elp@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Peter Hermann says:
: "1. "with system;" makes the program non-portable"
: This is *quite* wrong. Sure the definitions in System are target
: dependent, but in many cases they are there PRECISELY to allow you
: to write portable target-independent code that uses target dependent
: features.
: There are many situations in which the ONLY way to make a program portable
: is to use the values in System. For example, a program that assumes
: the addressabloe unit is 8-bits is much less portable than a program
: that uses System
: .Storage_Unit for this purpose.
This is more precise, of course.
I should have written "... makes the program potentially non-portable"
My compiler issues a "non-portable construct"-warning, which
I basically appreciate, because this is *quite* :-) reasonable.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-11 17:41 Higher precision and generics Duncan Sands
1995-03-14 16:13 ` David Arno
1995-03-15 12:12 ` Duncan Sands
1995-03-17 8:36 ` Dan Kurfis
1995-03-17 12:37 ` Peter Hermann
1995-03-19 1:23 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-20 16:33 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
1995-03-21 21:14 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-18 1:45 ` Keith Thompson
1995-03-20 9:05 ` dkurfis
1995-03-15 15:36 ` Mats Weber
1995-03-15 16:35 ` Peter Hermann
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