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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:18:45 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-10-15T03:18:45-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ddbc9bf-0e2e-466d-8238-d8f709b985e1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2hqooFq0usU1@mid.individual.net>

Am Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2018 23:28:57 UTC+2 schrieb Niklas Holsti:
> Not guaranteed, but implied by the "Implementation advice":
> 
> - RM 13.3(11): X'address denotes the address of the first of the storage 
> elements allocated to X.
> 
> - RM 13.3(14): For an array X, X'Address should point at the first 
> component of the array [...].
> 
> Combining those two, it seems that the first element of an array should 
> start at the first storage element (= lowest address) allocated to the 
> array.
> 
> By reasonable induction  :-)  the second, third, etc. array elements 
> follow in increasing address order. But not _guaranteed_, I agree.

There is the old Dewar rule that no compiler is doing nonsense. It would be a very unfriendly compiler to not follow this advice.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-15 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-14 19:15 Examining individual bytes of an integer Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-14 19:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-14 21:28   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15 10:18     ` AdaMagica [this message]
2018-10-15 18:43       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15 20:18         ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-16 10:18           ` AdaMagica
2018-10-16 11:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-16 22:35               ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  8:10                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17  9:47                   ` briot.emmanuel
2018-10-17 10:04                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17 21:57                   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-16 22:33             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  6:51               ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-17 22:01                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  8:17               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17 22:03                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17 22:10                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-18  8:01                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-18  9:33               ` AdaMagica
2018-10-18 21:18                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-19  6:27                   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-19  8:28                     ` AdaMagica
2018-10-19 16:38                       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-14 21:04 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15  7:49   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15  8:55   ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15 10:52   ` Björn Lundin
2018-10-14 23:42 ` Matt Borchers
2018-10-14 23:45   ` Matt Borchers
2018-10-15  9:02     ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15  7:29   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-15  9:05   ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15 16:11     ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15 20:27   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-15  5:37 ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-15  7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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