From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: null range from 1 element discrete type
Date: 1999/11/22
Date: 1999-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81c2sg$bvm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3835D5A0.F906D31D@mitre.org
In article <3835D5A0.F906D31D@mitre.org>,
"Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
> Technically there is no "perfect" solution, as the
compiler is
> allowed to choose a size of zero bits for such a type. But if
the
> (sub)type is a generic formal type, you shouldn't have to
worry about
> this possibility.
By the way, the above is a complete red herring, this has
nothing to do with the number of bits used to represent the
type, it is a question purely at the semantic level.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-19 0:00 null range from 1 element discrete type Duncan Sands
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
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