Re: Length-Limited Huffman Coding

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Tero Koskinen" <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote in message 
news:n9ikpb$ma8$1@loke.gir.dk...
> 11.2.2016, 11.48, gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
...
> I am not Randy, but I tested the code with Janus/Ada 3.1.2c
> (on Windows 10) and it compiled and ran fine:

Thanks. Of course, the MS-DOS Ada 83 compiler, with the 640K memory limit 
and weaker representation clause support, might be a different story.

...
> Although, Janus/Ada gave one warning:
> In File C:\Work\gautier\llhc\LENGTH_LIMITED_HUFFMAN_CODE_LENGTHS.ADB at 
> line 54
> --------------
>    53:    type Index_pair is array(Index_type'(0)..1) of Index_type;
>    54:    lists: array(0..Index_type(max_bits-1)) of Index_pair;
> -----------------------------------------------------^
> *WARNING* This component has a non-simple type (6.5.2)

That just means that the implementation of that type is likely to be 
expensive. It should work (as it does), but if you have a performance 
concern you, one might want to try to get rid of the warning. I presume this 
is in a generic unit, though, so that's probably impossible. (This is one of 
the warnings that I'm contemplating moving to a new category of 
"informations", which could then be turned on/off separately; leaving 
warnings for things that a programmer really ought to consider changing.)

                         Randy.