Re: different compilers: different standard types?????

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Riccardo" <kk@kk.com> wrote in message
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> My problem was of course not to define new types but to use the same type
> (with the same source files!) on both the consoles (a Sun Spark and an
Alpha
> Digital ).
>
> So in defining new types I have to be sure that I don't have to manage
> different source codes.
>
> I'm looking for a sort of pragma that should help me to share the needs of
> the two implementations (as the "conditional compilation" in C).
>
> I saw that the pragma System is a deprecated one.
>
> Is there something useful that allows the operation?

But surely the solution to your problem is to simply not use predefined
types? Define your own with the range you require or use the type in package
Interfaces.