From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Zero_Fill pragma
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:00:26 +0100
Date: 2004-07-21T10:00:26+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40fe2f6b$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: opsbgc51fxp4pfvb@bram-2
Nick Roberts wrote:
> The pragma is not intended to affect any of the bits that are
> used to represent a value. In a composite type, you sometimes
> get 'gaps' in between components (or possibly at the edges),
> of 'unused' bits. The pragma is intended to cause these
> unused bits to be initialised to 0 whenever the composite
> object as a whole is initialised. It is not intended to affect
> the initialisation (or reading or updating) of any of the
> components.
What about hardware/interface specs that require '1' not '0'?.. ;-)
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-20 16:22 Zero_Fill pragma Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 17:37 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-07-20 20:14 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 21:06 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-07-20 22:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-21 7:21 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-07-21 9:00 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-07-20 21:57 ` Frank
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2004-07-20 17:13 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-07-21 12:27 ` Marin David Condic
2004-07-22 9:02 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-07-21 9:24 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-07-21 12:59 Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-07-21 21:54 ` Marin David Condic
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