Re: HELP:Declaration in ADA?!!

[kdevlin@magicnet.net (Ken Devlin)]

Tuyet-Tram DANG-NGOC <dangngoc@ens-info.uvsq.fr> wrote:

>Hi there,

>I have a stupid question to ask.
>DOES SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO DECLARE LONG_INTEGER IN ADA?
>All the books I've read here does not answer this metaphysical question, they
>just take it as if everyone should know how to declare it. In a wonderful
>book, I've seen how to declare LONG_REAL by typing:
>   type LONG_REAL is DIGIT 14;
>But how to do it for LONG_INTEGER?
>Can someone answers me pleeeeaaaase, i've a big and horrible project to finish
>for very soon.

I must be missing something here.  Isn't this a compiler dependant
question???

I use an (old) Telesoft compiler targeted to M68030 (V4.1B) and VaxVMS
(V3.23)  in both cases LONG_INTEGER  is type that defines a 32 bit
"bucket".  INTEGER, NATURAL, POSITIVE are all 16 bit types.  On the
other hand the Dec ADA compiler I used 3-4 years ago defined INTEGER
to be a 32 bit type and SHORT_INTEGER to be a 16 bit type (I think it
also had LONG_INTEGER as a 64 bit type)

These are predefined types in the compiler.

As I have no experience with compilers that are not hosted on a
VAX,... I repeat, have I missed something???

I'm looking forward to being educated.

										kbd


>Thank you very much for having paid attention to my question, and thank you
>very very much if you reply.
>                      TRAM
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