From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem
Date: 1996/02/23
Date: 1996-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.825137575@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dn8ItA.B9H@world.std.com
"Would it not be pretty easy to implement, if you restrict it to
components that exactly fit in 1, 2, or 4 bytes -- that is, avoid the
cases that cause non-contiguous bit fields? These are probably the
cases people want most of the time anyway.
It is correct that the RM does not require the feature. (Actually, it
*does* require the feature on machines where the storage element is a
word -- but such machines aren't too common anymore.)"
Yes, it would be much easier to implement with this restriction, but in
my experience, this would be a very significant restriction.
\x1adp
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1996-02-20 0:00 ` GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem Dave Haverkamp
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-02-24 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
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