Re: Streams in Ada

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> As I understand the notion of Storage_Element, they rather intended for this
> to correspond to whatever the hardware would normally reference with a
> machine address and pull off the bus.

According to this definition, Storage_Element'Size would have to be
256. :-/

> The fact that there may be instructions that let you pick apart that
> chunk of stuff you pulled from the bus wouldn't be a consideration
> because you'd be looking for the machine's most efficient means of
> referencing data. Hence, even though the PDP-10 could easily disect
> the 36 bit words, you'd still want Storage_Element to be 36 bits
> because that was the smallest chunk of data you could extract from
> main memory.

This would imply that Storage_Element'Size should equal 64 with
generic Alpha targets.  I don't think many vendors implement this.