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From: AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
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Subject: Re: Encapsulating Ada.Direct_IO
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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 =3D 9. (It was great fun for the cross-compiler.)
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 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 =3D 9.

Note that Natural'Size =3D Integer'Size - 1.