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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/17
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:26:42 -0500, George W. Bayles
<georgeb@cajunbro.com> wrote: 

>Ada is a different language for different purposes. You don't 
>expect a compiled Ada program to run on anything but the 
>specific processor/system it was compiled for.

Depends, JGnat is apparently coming along nicely... ;)

Besides, I fail to see what wrap-around versus exception semantics for
integer overflow has to do with the ability to compile to bytecode.

- Aidan
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