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From: AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Cc: randy@rrsoftware.com
Subject: Re: Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:39:13 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-11-17T23:39:13-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <946c87a9-208a-4206-b925-1c48ac621acd@a37g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ic1uop$nhs$1@munin.nbi.dk

On 18 Nov., 02:16, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> ... For
> instance, the Unisys U2200 (a 36-bit machine, with 9-bit bytes) used
> Character'Size = 9. (It was great fun for the cross-compiler.)
>
>                                       Randy.

Huh. How then is Character defined there? Accoriding to RM A.1(35),
Character has 256 positions, so Character'Size should be still 8.
Of course stand-alone objects would have X'Size = 9.

Note that Natural'Size = Integer'Size - 1.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17  4:44 Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO Bryan
2010-11-17  5:20 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-26 15:31   ` Bryan
2010-11-17 12:25 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18  1:16   ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18  2:21     ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18 16:36       ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 18:21         ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-11-18 18:36           ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18 19:48           ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 20:15             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-18  7:39     ` AdaMagica [this message]
2010-11-18 18:38       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-18  9:46     ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-11-18 16:31     ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 17:05       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
     [not found]         ` <ENidndoH8qoqjHvRnZ2dnUVZ_j-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
2010-11-19  8:24           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-19 16:19             ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-18 18:45       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-11-24 21:31     ` Warren
2010-11-17 22:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-11-17 23:03   ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-17 23:11     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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