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From: "Ben Brosgol" <brosgol@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
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> Is there a case where, for example, it would make any sense at all for an
> implementation to *not* give the user 16 bits? Would it ever make sense
for
> the type Integer to be 8 bits, for example?

Not really.  E.g., remember that String's index subtype is Positive, so if
Integer were 8 bits then String objects would have a max size of 127.