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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Universal Integer in TO_ADDRESS call
Date: 1999/05/31
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In article <7isc5p$2ql$1@lure.pipex.net>,
  "David Akister" <wellgate@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much for that chaps.
> It does seem bizarre that address conversion on this XDADA
compiler is
> limited to an short integer type - which is too small for most
applications,
> and the universal type which loses it universalness (made up
word!) when
> manipulated in any way....
> Oh well INTEGER'POS it is then. DEC ADA which is the host
compiler is more
> fun with its UNSIGNED_LONGWORD.
> Thanks a lot

Sounds like the result of a rather bizarre subsetting of the
original DEC Ada 83 design. After all the only reason for
the universal_integer trick in DEC Ada 83 is to get around
the ambiguities that are introduced by having the function
defined on two different integer types.


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