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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Gripe about Ada, rep specs that won't. Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144412065 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4j941t$hvl@news4.digex.net> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Ok. How do I go about paying for it? Is there a site I can visit? I assume that actually honoring rep clauses would require a bit-level address to be calculated for any field (which would be marked -- as already happens with 4-bit, 2-bit and 1-bit items), and that could be a simple generalization of the current scheme, or it could be a dramatic step (forward, IMHO)." Actually the handling of 1,2,4 is very much different and much simpler than the general case in which a field can cross a byte boundary, but it is certainly doable. Feel free to discuss the matter with us on support@gnat.com. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies