From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Rep Spec Report with ASIS
Date: 2 Feb 2002 15:29:06 -0600
Date: 2002-02-02T15:29:06-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6Px$zvH50rZP@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xrV68.6402$P87.3738368124@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com
In article <xrV68.6402$P87.3738368124@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>think it wouldn't be terribly hard to walk throught the declarations,
>>find record type definitions, and generate a Representation
>>Specification Report for each one - would it?
> Do you mean scan
> type R is record
> A : Boolean;
> B : Integer;
> end record;
> and produce something like
> for R use record
> B at 0 range 0 .. 15;
> A at 2 range 0 .. 7;
> end record;
> Only the compiler can do that because only the compiler knows how
> big its Integer, Boolean, etc are and how it optimally arranges
> them in a non-rep-speced record.
The compiler also may change its mind regarding the meaning of
"optimally" based on user-supplied controls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-02 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-02 14:33 Rep Spec Report with ASIS John Cupak
2002-02-02 17:35 ` tmoran
2002-02-02 21:29 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-02-02 22:51 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-03 0:34 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-02-03 10:29 ` Steven Hovater
2002-02-03 13:40 ` Jeffrey Creem
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