From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: Distribution of subrange bounds
Date: 2 Apr 2002 06:13:24 -0800
Date: 2002-04-02T14:13:24+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: Xns91E3D3B905FC4derekknosofcouk@194.168.222.8
dmjones <derek@NOSPAMknosof.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Xns91E3D3B905FC4derekknosofcouk@194.168.222.8>...
> I am trying to find papers on the integer subranges
> used in programs. What are the distributions
> of the lower and upper bounds? What is the
> distribution of representable values, i.e.,
> the difference between the upper and lower bounds.
> To what extent do developers use subranges, instead
> of the basic integer type?
>
> Can anybody point me at any empirical analysis
> of Ada or Pascal source code?
I've never head of any such study. However, you can certianly go to
http://www.adapower.com and analize a whole bunch of Ada sources
yourself. Free Software projects may not be representative, but it
should give you some idea.
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