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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:54:46 +0000 (UTC)
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* Marin David Condic wrote:
>Is there a case where, for example, it would make any sense at all for an
>implementation to *not* give the user 16 bits? Would it ever make sense for
>the type Integer to be 8 bits, for example? (Assuming that if I actually
>want an 8-bit integer type I can still declare one of my own, that is...)

Integer ist expected to be the size of the maschine word. Now choose a 6502
or similar �P. If you need a certain range of countable numbers, define your
own type. But do not insist on types the maschine can not handle efficiently.
Ada requires native support for all native maschine types anyway.