From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes
Date: 1996/09/29
Date: 1996-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DyGy7y.Hy5@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.843920464@schonberg
In article <dewar.843920464@schonberg>,
Robert Dewar <dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
I wrote:
>It should."
And Robert replied:
>I am completely puzzled, you can specify the size of types and the size of
>objects, what on earth woul it mean to specify Storage_Size for an array
>(as opposed to specifying the type or object size for the array).
The complaint was that Ada measures everythng in bits, and why can't you
specify sizes in bytes, or storage units, or whatever, which is much
more convenient in many cases. That's what I was saying "It should" to.
- Bob
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1996-09-28 0:00 Rules for Representation of Subtypes Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
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1996-10-10 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-22 0:00 Matthew Heaney
1996-09-23 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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