From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: The Incredible Shrinking Type
Date: 2000/11/07
Date: 2000-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 3A0816D4.E980EAFB@cadwin.com
In article <3A0816D4.E980EAFB@cadwin.com>,
Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote:
> and certainly not improve portability required by the RM.
The only thing that the RM has to say here is that portable
code must NOT assume anything about the size of parameters,
since there is no way to specify it!
So there is definitely no portability requirement here
(other than to avoid making the assumptions).
Most portability problems in Ada are caused by bogus
assumptions of this kind. Yes it may be odd that the
parameter size is 64 rather than 128 here, but there
is definitely nothing in the RM that suggests otherwise
(let alone requiring otherwise).
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-06 0:00 The Incredible Shrinking Type Marc A. Criley
2000-11-07 0:04 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-11-08 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-11-09 5:41 ` Robert Dewar
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