From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 07:59:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: 10 May 2002 07:59:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205100659.28b58e6e@posting.google.com> References: <3CD88FBD.4070706@telepath.com> <3CD91E31.1060004@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021042783 21221 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2002 14:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2002 14:59:43 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23846 Date: 2002-05-10T14:59:43+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > IIRC, there was XD-Ada targeted to the Mil-Std-1750a and its Integer was 16 > bits. This was Ada83 and, on that hardware, it didn't make much sense to do > anything else anyway. Of course, this was an embedded application where ... > Of course, arguably, if a given implementation is only supporting 16 bit > integers, it is likely to be for a machine (like the 1750a) that may not > easily handle larger sizes and may not have the large memory needed to > support lists that would exceed the 32767 elements it could count anyway. That would be my argument as well. :-) -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html