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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4f1dddd3318e056d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-02 16:54:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!194.168.4.91.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "martin.m.dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: type declaration and storage requirements X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:54:49 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.147.177 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 1023062093 62.252.147.177 (Mon, 03 Jun 2002 00:54:53 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 00:54:53 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25227 Date: 2002-06-03T00:54:49+01:00 List-Id: "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).