From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
Date: 4 Aug 2002 12:00:55 -0600
Date: 2002-08-04T12:00:55-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PG2KS5+doDWm@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D4C2805.62563584@adaworks.com
In article <5ee5b646.0208040607.ebb6909@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3D4C2805.62563584@adaworks.com>...
>> Since we often counsel designers to specify their own
> ^^^^^
> I trust this is a typo for *always*
I would expect no such counsel when:
1. They are already doing so.
or
2. This consideration is vastly outweighed by a body of
more important items that deserve their intention.
>> numeric types anyway, this is probably not a hardship,
>> but it could be troublesome for an experienced I-8051
>> programmer who expects 16 bit integers.
>
> I don't understand, is this "experienced I-8051" programmer
> an experienced Ada programmer. If so, he has no business
> using Standard.Integer. If not, and he is writing Ada in
> C style, then perhaps the choice of 32-bit integers will
> help cure this bad practice.
Let's cure _all_ such individuals, by standardizing on 4096 bits
as the size for Standard.Integer :-)
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-16 11:27 64-bit integers in Ada David Rasmussen
2002-05-17 2:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-17 13:56 ` Mark Johnson
2002-07-29 15:33 ` Victor Giddings
2002-07-29 20:15 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-30 18:35 ` Richard Riehle
2002-07-30 20:20 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 0:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-31 4:17 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 8:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-07-31 13:20 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 13:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-01 7:54 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-01 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-02 7:31 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-02 13:21 ` Marin David Condic
2002-08-03 12:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-03 18:59 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-04 6:12 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-04 14:07 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-05 2:28 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-11 15:32 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-13 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-04 18:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
[not found] ` <5ee5b646.0208040607.ebb6909@posting.googOrganization: LJK Software <PG2KS5+doDWm@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2002-08-05 1:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-05 1:48 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-05 11:40 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-08-05 14:40 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-05 2:34 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-11 21:56 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-13 21:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-18 1:01 ` AG
2002-08-20 0:15 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-02 8:37 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-08-02 12:54 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-01 11:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-01 17:53 ` Ben Brosgol
2002-08-01 20:32 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 21:50 ` Keith Thompson
2002-07-31 21:59 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-30 4:29 ` Robert Dewar
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