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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:14:43 -0500
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Robert Dewar wrote in message
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>> Though there are few machines still
>> extant that use storage multiples of other than
>> eight-bits,  they do still exist.   I think the compiler for the
Unisys
>> 11xx series has a word size of 36 bits.  Randy can correct me
>> on that if I am wrong.
>
>Yes, of course it's 36 bits (that was a port of Alsys
>technology with which I am familiar).


That's the Ada 83 compiler. The Ada 95 compiler is a port of Janus/Ada.
And, yes it has a word size of 36-bits. (Although the compiler
internally considers it a machine with 9-bit storage units with strong
alignment requirements. This matched the code generator better (which
was created for C), and insured that strings were packed without
standing on ones head.)

               Randy.