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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Prevalence of Compilers for Which Integer'Size < 32?
Date: 1996/07/30
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Date: 1996-07-30T00:00:00+00:00
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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.