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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Large arrays (again), problem case for GNAT
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On 14 Apr 2005 11:03:17 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:

>> In fact the 'Size attribute fails on objects over 2147483647 bits :(
>> Sometimes this failure is silent (not trapped even with -gnato),
>> sometimes it gets a constaint error at compile time.
> 
> Yeah, it was a language design mistake to measure everything in bits.

Is there anything smaller than one bit? (:-))

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