From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/19
Date: 1997-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EGrE3K.Euv@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34218E68.63D5@gsg.eds.com
In article <34218E68.63D5@gsg.eds.com>,
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <nospam@gsg.eds.com> wrote:
>Ada, of course, takes a much less machine-dependent definition of the
>world; you define the precision of your variables in terms of the
>application, not in terms of the word size of your computer or virtual
>machine.
This is basically good, but it still bothers me that:
type T is range 0..2_000_000_000;
X, Y: T := T'Last;
Z: T := (X + Y) / 2;
will typically behave differently on a 32-bit machine than on a 36-bit
machine.
- Bob
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1997-09-03 0:00 An interesting quote on Java and C++ Nasser
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
[not found] ` <01bcb881$915526a0$d7000064@sim01.amst.co.at>
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Joachim Schroeer
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1997-09-25 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-11-19 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-10-08 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-09 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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