Re: Interfacing to C and long long data type

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jun 27, 9:11 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:59:01 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> > On 26 Cze, 10:53, Sébastien Morand <seb.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Anyway when you interface Ada with C, you are loosing the portability of
> >> your program
>
> > If I need some functionality, then non-portable program that has this
> > functionality is infinitely better than a portable program that does
> > not.
>
> Why infinitely? Having any functionality X can have only a finite value.
> Similarly the value of having no X is also finite. [Assuming some additive
> model of values.]

I think the idea here is that the value of a portable program that
does not have the functionality you need is 0.0, and so even though
the functionality of the non-portable value is finite, when you divide
to get a ratio you will get an infinite answer.  Well, actually,
you'll get Constraint_Error but that's just a nitpick......

                             -- Adam