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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Type casting question
Date: 1999/12/21
Date: 1999-12-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9d0$ul9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com

In article <385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> Question: Could someone please provide some solution
>   to the below?
>
> I have this question in the conversion of values
> between the string and the my own type shown below.
>
> type Bit_5 is range 2#0# .. 2#11111#;
>     for Bit_5'Size use 5;
> subtype Size_Type is Bit_5;


By the way, it is almost certainly wrong to have the base
type of Bit_5 be signed.

Almost certainly what you want here is

  type Bit_5 is mod 2 ** 5;

The size clause is unnecessary in either case, since the
default size in both cases is obviously 5!


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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-20  0:00 Type casting question Raju Vemulamanda
1999-12-20  0:00 ` DuckE
1999-12-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-21  0:00   ` reason67
1999-12-21  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00       ` reason67
1999-12-22  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-23  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00           ` reason67
1999-12-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00             ` reason67
1999-12-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-24  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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