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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45a9122ddf5fcf5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes Date: 1996/09/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186209157 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > The one interesting additional piece of information is that > there is another compiler besides Intermetrics that made Natural'Size 31. > I certainly am aware that Alsys makde Natural'Size be 31, and I am > (painfully, because it causes some compatibility problems for some of > our customers) aware that Verdix made Natural'Size 32. Keith for interest > which compiler made natural'Size 31? It's interesting to know, since it > means that the Ada 95 decision is more justified (i.e. we had a chaotic > non-portable situation in Ada 83, and Ada 95 eliminated the non-portability, > but was bound to cause some incompatibilities for certain implementations > when it did so. I was referring to TeleSoft's RISCAda compiler. (Well, it was originally TeleSoft's.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com <*> TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2706 FIJAGDWOL