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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/28
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Date: 1997-06-28T00:00:00+00:00
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I said:

   > ....  Also, it might be necessary to call
   > System.Storage_Elements.To_Address, but I can't imagine any compiler for
   > a machine where 16#B01000040# is a meaningful address not allowing
   > literals for addresses.

In article <EC471t.Ltp@thomsoft.com> kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson) writes:

   > Imagine harder.  8-)}

   Gee, didn't I put enough smileys around?  My point was that if
addresses over three Gig are hard-wired, the compiler should support
such explicit nonsense.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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