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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada
Date: 1999/11/09
Date: 1999-11-09T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8086j7$54e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3826FD9C.37446C29@callnetuk.com

In article <3826FD9C.37446C29@callnetuk.com>,
  Nick Roberts <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
>    type Bit_Integer is mod 2;
>    type Bit_Array is array (Natural range <>) of Bit_Integer;

I don't see the introduction of these types in the RM as being
a helpful step in improving portability. Can you give an example
of something that *in practice* is a portability problem now,
that would be no longer a problem. I am not really interested
in problems that might happen in theory, but do not happen in
practice.


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  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-09  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-04  0:00 Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada John Halleck
1999-11-05  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-05  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-05  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-06  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-08  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-08  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-09  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-09  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-09  0:00           ` Advice, or *Advice*? (was: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada) Ted Dennison
1999-11-10  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-09  0:00         ` Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada Robert Dewar
1999-11-05  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-05  0:00   ` John Halleck
1999-11-08  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-09  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-11-09  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
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