From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: Representation clauses and streams
Date: 1999/12/29
Date: 1999-12-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tg1z85cyyz.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 386A3C20.31A06016@telepath.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> > Bits_Per_Octet : constant := 8;
> >
> > type One_Octet_Type is range 0 .. 2**(1*Bits_Per_Octet) - 1;
> > for One_Octet_Type'Size use Bits_Per_Octet;
> >
> > is written as a two-octet value to a stream (Stream_Element'Size is,
>
> Hmm. I'm curious what would happen if you changed that type to a modular
> type of the same range.
It works, thanks. In fact, it seems as if GNAT takes the sign bit into
account, which is, in my eyes, quite unnecessary.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-29 0:00 Representation clauses and streams Florian Weimer
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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