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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: How to put 200 into an integer sub-type of 16 bits (code
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:16:32 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 14, 1:09 pm, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 1:33 am, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If you need to put 200 in an 8-bit type, why not use
> > Natural range 0 to 255?
>
> Natural range <whatever> has the same number of bits as Integer, which
> has to be at least 16 and is very likely to be 32 (or maybe 64 on a 64-
> bit machine).

Not necessarily.  You can apply a 'Size clause to a subtype:

   subtype Byte is Natural range 0 .. 255;
   for Byte'Size use 8;

                            -- Adam