Re: When enumerating does Ada enumerated type goes up to up to Integer'Last or System.Max_Int

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 03/22/2018 07:44 PM, Bojan Bozovic wrote:
> http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05aarm/html/AA-3-5-1.html
> 
> Now this is more theory question as Ada Integer'Last is guaranteed to be at least 2**15-1 and perhaps nobody exhausted it by enumerating in practice, but that is minimal Integer'Last and nothing prevents implementation to have bigger System.Max_Int than its Integer'Last (as its in current GNAT which have System.Max_Int of 2**63-1).

Character types are enumeration types, and therefore, technically, 
Wide_Wide_Character is an enumeration type with 2 ** 32 values. Since 'Pos is 
universal integer, presumably systems can handle up to System.Max_Binary_Modulus 
values.

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