Re: type declaration and storage requirements

["martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>]

"Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:bebbba07.0206021321.a3bbfac@posting.google.com...
> Ada allows me to specify the number of digits and the range of a
> floating-point type, or the delta and range of a fixed-point type.
> This gives more control than, say, C/C++, which only allows me to
> specify single or double precision. What bothers me, however, is that
> I apparently need to do some homework of my own to determine if my
> declaration will require one or two words for storage (for a
> particular word size).
[snip]

I think the argument here is - "Why do you care?"

The only time you care about such things are when you are defining
interfacing
and usually there will be an IDD to define such things (or else there isn't
and,
yes, you may be the person assigned to think about such size issues - but
that
is not a language issue).