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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
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On 08/09/2010 05:51 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Not sure if it still exists in the real world, but the compiler we did for
> the Unisys mainframes used Stream_Element'Size = 9. (The Unisys mainframes
> are 36-bit machines.) Stream_Element'Size = 8 would have made the code for
> handling arrays awful.

What was Storage_Unit? 36?

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Jeff Carter
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