From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: An alternative to Unchecked Conversion
Date: 1999/12/17
Date: 1999-12-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn85keec.46.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3859a3ad_2@news1.prserv.net
* Matthew Heaney wrote:
>The object declaration
>
>declare
> function To_Unsigned is
> new Unchecked_Conversion (Character, Unsigned_8);
>
> C_As_Byte : constant Unsigned_8 := To_Unsigned ('A');
>begin
>
>should be identical to the declaration
>
>declare
> C : constant Character := 'A';
>begin
>
>If the former is more expensive than the latter, then your compiler is
>broken.
Nope. The former one contains a restriction to 8 bit which can be
considerably slower that using the native character size of the processor.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-16 0:00 An alternative to Unchecked Conversion Tom_Hargraves
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Tom Hargraves
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-16 0:00 ` DuckE
[not found] ` <mhrj5s4qckk7rt1j3pu0s3r438e281pu37@4ax.com>
1999-12-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
[not found] ` <g9rr5s84eeov4vvp2v9v70jo9b5uporm0v@4ax.com>
1999-12-20 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-20 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1999-12-16 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
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