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From: stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Side-effect arithmetic again [was: Ada ... in embedded systems]
Date: 1996/03/29
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Tucker Taft (stt@henning.camb.inmet.com) wrote:

: Oops!  I was reading the original line of "Item'Pos(This) + By" instead
: of the suggested replacement.  In the suggested replacement,
: where both operands are the result of 'Pos, the "preference"
: rule for root numeric types (8.6(14)) will mean that they will both

Oops oops -------------------------^^ should be (29)

: be converted to root_integer, whose run-time base range is
: defined to be System.Min_Int .. System.Max_Int.
: See RM95 8.6(29) and 3.5.4(14).

-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Cambridge, MA  USA