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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Losts packages..
Date: 1997/12/26
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<<These sound like packages provided with the Meridian Ada compiler, a
rather
old Ada83 compiler, that never quite kept up with the times (it never
seemed
to get past version 4.1.4, and never took up the AI that said type
Character
could be 8 bits long (which I think would have been useful)).
>>


To be fair, the great majority of Ada 83 compilers, even today, did NOT
make this (non-upwards compatible) change to type Character. WG9 permitted
the change, partly as a transitional aid for the transition to Ada 95, but it
was neither the expectation or even the desirable aim that all Ada 83
compilers should have taken advantage of this move.