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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: fixed point type over an interface.
Date: 1997/02/12
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Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00
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Wes said

<<If you are using Ada-83, I know of at least one compiler where a rep-spec
on 'Small cannot be trusted.  This compiler always uses a multiple of
four bits for the fractional part, and for the integer part, uses the
smallest multiple of four bits that can hold the range.
>>

There can always be bugs in compilers, and this is clearly one! If it is
still there in the current release, it should be fixed.

But I don't see any point in suggesting that ones choice of techniques
should be influenced by one particular bug in one particular compiler
that you happen to know about!