From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: What is the best way to convert Integer to Short_Short_Integer?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:59:53 +0200
Date: 2010-06-11T10:59:53+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hustui$i2q$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <husneh$r0d$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
Jeffrey R. Carter a �crit :
> Implementations are not required to define Short_Short_Integer (or any
> other predefined integer type except Integer), so the program may fail
> on other compilers. Thus, the use of Short_Short_Integer is not portable.
>
But the use of Interfaces.Integer_8 is OK. Guaranteed to be signed
integer on 8 bits, or to be undefined if the machine does not support
such a type - which is a good thing. If you need 8 bit integers and the
machine does not support them, you'd better know ASAP!
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 1:17 What is the best way to convert Integer to Short_Short_Integer? Adrian Hoe
2010-06-11 2:21 ` Adrian Hoe
2010-06-11 3:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-11 4:26 ` Adrian Hoe
2010-06-11 7:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-11 8:59 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2010-06-11 12:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-11 19:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-06-13 4:26 ` BrianG
2010-06-13 18:07 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-14 7:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-14 16:45 ` Keith Thompson
2010-06-15 4:54 ` Martin Krischik
2010-06-22 21:48 ` Keith Thompson
2010-06-15 2:24 ` BrianG
2010-06-15 21:21 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-15 23:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-16 1:27 ` BrianG
2010-06-11 12:31 ` Brian Drummond
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