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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/09
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Nick said

<<But Robert, this doesn't answer the question of what the compiler does by
default.
>>

Talking about the default representation of decimal fixed.



The answer is that decimal fixed is like COMPUTATIONAL in COBOL, the
semantics of arithmetic on this type and the set of values are well
specified, but the *representation* is implementation dependent.