Re: HELP:Declaration in ADA?!!

[Waltersr@usa.pipeline.com(Walter B. Hollman Sr.)]

On Apr 08, 1996 23:02:15 in article <Re: HELP:Declaration in ADA?!!>,
'kdevlin@magicnet.net (Ken Devlin)' wrote: 
 
 
>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 
>>--  
>>Tuyet Tram DANG NGOC 
>>Licence d'informatique 
>>Universite de Versailles 
>>dangngoc@ens-info.uvsq.fr 
>>http://www.ens-info.uvsq.fr:8000/public/dangngoc/index.html 
> 
> 
> 
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If you know the value of a Long_Integer, and can not find one, then DEFINE
ONE of your own! 
Walter B. Hollman Sr