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From: Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl>
Subject: Re: How difficult is ada to learn?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:27:21 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-07-15T02:27:21+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db76u9$qpu$1@panorama.wcss.wroc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccr7ejv5gl.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> wrote:
> Ada's array-of-boolean doesn't have the annoying restriction of Pascal
> sets to a small range.  If you want 10_000 bits, that's fine in Ada,
> but Pascal compilers typically won't allow it.
> 

Use good Pascal compiler. GNU Pascal sets are limited by integer size.
On 32-bit machines you are still limited to 256 MB (while packed bit array
is able to use 64-bit indices and fill whole 4GB), but on 64-bit machines
the other limits strike first. Even on 32-bit machines I would not
call it "small range".

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch
hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl 



  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-30  0:44 How difficult is ada to learn? Sm704
2005-06-30  5:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-06-30  6:15   ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-30 14:19 ` Gene
2005-06-30 14:34   ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-30 15:00     ` Duncan Sands
2005-06-30 18:38     ` Gene
2005-06-30 19:32       ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-30 18:59     ` Randy Brukardt
2005-06-30 19:36       ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-30 15:01   ` Matthew Heaney
2005-06-30 22:35     ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-15  2:27       ` Waldek Hebisch [this message]
2005-07-15  5:14         ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-01  5:37     ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-06-30 16:43 ` Martin Krischik
2005-06-30 19:36 ` svaa
2005-06-30 22:53 ` chris
2005-06-30 22:54   ` chris
2005-07-01  5:39   ` Jeffrey Carter
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