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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bffcdbd805329ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 07:05:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:46:55 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9mo4gg$2ib$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 999265616 2635 136.170.200.133 (31 Aug 2001 13:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Aug 2001 13:46:56 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12608 Date: 2001-08-31T13:46:56+00:00 List-Id: In practical terms, I'm not sure that it is terribly important. Most computers these days have memory addressable in 8-bit bytes and communications equipment that is oriented towards 8-bit bytes. I doubt that there are many actual, validated implementations of Ada95 that *don't* use 8 bits for a stream element. In most applications, I would feel very comfortable writing code that depended on Stream_Element being an 8-bit byte and not worrying about absolute portability. Most apps are not ported to begin with and the minority that are, typically are going to be ported to similar machines. So if most machines use 8-bit bytes and most Ada implementations use 8-bits for Stream_Element, is there really a practical problem here? I'd be interested to hear of a case where it did make a difference. I'm sure a few exist, but I think its got to be a small percentage. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:CnMj7.465$F4.1099@www.newsranger.com... > That's another good point. I don't think there is, but its probably almost > always going to be a reasonable assumption that Stream_Element'size is evenly > divisiable by Storage_Unit'size. It would be nice if this were in the standard > though. I can't see what good use anyone could make of the extra flexiblity. >