From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Representation clause for enumeratives
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 05:42:20 -0600
Date: 2001-02-10T05:42:20-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GN9h6.83765$Ch.13631332@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 962mh2$f9v$1@nnrp1.deja.com
"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
news:962mh2$f9v$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <Ndyg6.1048$y03.96769@news.flash.net>,
> "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> > I don't know if either behavior is considered "wrong" by the
> standard. I'm
> > not comfortable with the GNAT behavior, since it treats
> 16#8000_0000# as a
<snip>
> Note that 16#8000_0000# is the number 2**32, it is a POSITIVE
I believe Robert meant 2**31 here.
> number, nothing at all to do with the largest negative number.
> I think the confusion is coming from the use of base 16, and
> suddenly that is translating into bit patterns in your mind???
>
> Any time you write 16#8000_0000# in your program, you could
> equally well write 2147483648. The meaning is 100% identical.
> If the first looks like a bit pattern to you, and the second
> looks like an integer, then that's your confusion, not Ada's
> :-)
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2001-02-08 9:53 Representation clause for enumeratives Sandro Binetti
2001-02-08 10:12 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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[not found] ` <95ua6q$mp4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2001-02-08 15:41 ` M. Kotiaho
2001-02-08 16:27 ` Steve O'Neill
2001-02-09 7:26 ` Sandro Binetti
2001-02-09 9:29 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-08 15:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-02-08 16:22 ` Rod Chapman
2001-02-10 6:34 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-12 11:32 ` Rod Chapman
2001-02-08 18:52 ` Greg Bek
[not found] ` <Ndyg6.1048$y03.96769@news.flash.net>
2001-02-09 5:02 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-10 6:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-10 16:37 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-10 17:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-11 1:09 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-11 5:27 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-11 12:53 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-02-12 0:24 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-12 20:10 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-02-11 14:50 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-10 17:31 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-11 1:09 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-11 5:28 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-11 14:50 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-12 0:30 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-12 2:34 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-10 6:19 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-10 11:42 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
2001-02-10 16:37 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <3A829EB8.A098925E@baesystems.com>
[not found] ` <95uae3$n5j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2001-02-12 9:12 ` Stuart Palin
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