From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ef4bf3098ab117 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada compiler differences References: <2tild3F20plpeU1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:16:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.73 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098235014 63.184.9.73 (Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:54 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:54 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5480 Date: 2004-10-20T01:16:54+00:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > Even if you use a use clause to specify how many bits you want it to take > up (i.e. even in a record)? The only reason to do that is because you need to map to something like hardware where this is required, so it's a fairly rare case (what I called the edges of software). Even then, there's no advantage to using a derived type. Indeed, using a derived type is giving contradictory information to the compiler: "use the same representation as Integer" and "use only N bits". -- Jeff Carter "Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!" Monty Python's Flying Circus 53