From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6cc2d0131145e263 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-10 01:41:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!news.cid.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question about "for X'Size use ..." Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:46:22 +0200 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <871ymk480x.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <3B72C23E.62F7B3D2@san.rr.com> <5ee5b646.0108091439.3e48faef@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11747 Date: 2001-08-10T10:46:22+02:00 List-Id: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: >> There is no effect because the stream operations operate on the base >> type, and you can't specify the size of a base type. > > This is incorrect, please see the latest AI on this topic AI 270 is not a mere clarification, it changes the semantics of the Ada language. I don't think these become part of the language automatically. (I think that AI 270 is pointless. Stream_Size won't give any additional portability unless the order of stream elements can be controlled, and the method of storing the sign, and the situations were the range of type neither is not symmetric around zero.)