From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Prevalence of Compilers for Which Integer'Size < 32?
Date: 1996/07/30
Date: 1996-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.838766184@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31FE0C01.302F@lmtas.lmco.com
Ken Garlington said (in partial jest, I realize)
Because it's not:
Bits_32 : constant := 32;
type anInt32 is range -(2**(Bits_32-1)) .. 2**(Bits_32-1)-1;
But in fact Bits_32 is a horrible name. I like named constants, but I
don't like junk names. The above would be reasonable if the name
Bits_32 were something like Word_Length_In_Bits.
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1996-07-26 0:00 Prevalence of Compilers for Which Integer'Size < 32? Dave Marshall
1996-07-27 0:00 ` steved
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Dave Marshall
1996-07-28 0:00 ` steved
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-08-01 0:00 ` steved
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1996-08-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-07-28 0:00 tmoran
1996-07-29 0:00 ` John Herro
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