From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,78ec96be17741f16 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-peer0-test!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unclear error message - please help Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:48:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <432C8690.C37D4AE0@alfred-hilscher.de> <43482077.3434FCF3@alfred-hilscher.de> <4894486.ZC6T0HgaI8@linux1.krischik.com> <7584946.OpPvqevNQa@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-131-222-95.range86-131.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1129009738 23599 86.131.222.95 (11 Oct 2005 05:48:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:48:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5541 Date: 2005-10-11T05:48:58+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: >>>>>>"Martin" == Martin Krischik writes: > > > Martin> All range types alow for positive and negative values - > Martin> even when the subtype is restricted to a positive range - > Martin> so they need a sign bit. > > In another thread I asked if it was possible to have a unsigned 64 bit > number on a 32 bit platform - the answer was yes. > > People showed me the specification of a built-in Ada package to prove > it. Sorry I can't remember the exact name of the Package > (os.interfaces???), and I don't have time to check now either. Interfaces > Nobody mentioned anything about packing (that I noticed) either. No need for modular types. Cheers -- Martin