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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:22:02 -0400
Date: 2010-08-08T18:22:02-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc62zkiw39.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C884E9EE.14C8B6%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk

"(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> I don't use non-power-of-2 mod types, but I write emulators, and I would be
> stuffed if I could not declare, e.g.:
>
>    type KDF9_word is mod 2**48;

Yes, that's one of the few cases where modular types make sense.

Unfortunately, nothing in the Ada RM requires implementations
to accept that.  GNAT does, on all targets.

But for a circular buffer of (say) 100 items?  No, I wouldn't
use modular types for the index.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-08 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 20:21 Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-06 20:24 ` (see below)
2010-08-06 23:14 ` Shark8
2010-08-07  7:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 13:52   ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-10 14:24     ` Shark8
2010-08-10 14:28     ` Shark8
2010-08-10 15:01     ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 15:14       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-10 18:32         ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 15:10     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-10 15:32     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-10 22:26     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-20  7:22       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-08 14:03 ` Gene
2010-08-08 15:49   ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-08 17:13     ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-08 18:11       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-08 20:51       ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-08 22:10         ` (see below)
2010-08-08 22:22           ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2010-08-09  4:46         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-09  5:52         ` J-P. Rosen
2010-08-09 13:28           ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 18:42             ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-09 19:05               ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 10:00                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-08-10 12:39                   ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 19:33             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-09 21:42               ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-10 12:26         ` Phil Clayton
2010-08-10 12:57           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-10 14:03             ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-10 14:27               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-10 22:50                 ` anon
2010-08-10 23:28                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-10 23:38                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-11  7:06                       ` Niklas Holsti
2010-08-11 11:58                         ` anon
2010-08-11 12:37                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-11 13:13                         ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-11 23:49                           ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-10 14:31               ` Shark8
2010-08-11  7:14               ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-11  6:42         ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-08 22:35     ` tmoran
2010-08-09 13:53       ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-09 17:59         ` tmoran
2010-08-09 19:36           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-09 21:38             ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-11  7:42       ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-11 13:38         ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-12  7:48           ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-12  8:08             ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-12 17:10               ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-12 18:06                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-11 18:49         ` Simon Wright
2010-08-12  7:54           ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-12  8:36             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-12 11:04             ` Brian Drummond
2010-08-12 19:23             ` Simon Wright
2010-08-12 20:21               ` (see below)
2010-08-13 15:08                 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-13 15:10                   ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-13 18:01                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-13 19:52                       ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-14  9:44                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-08-13 20:22                     ` Robert A Duff
2010-08-14  1:34                       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-14  7:18                         ` anon
2010-08-13 21:57                     ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-08-13 22:37                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-13 22:43                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-13 23:29                         ` tmoran
2010-08-14  0:02                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-14  0:16                             ` (see below)
2010-08-14 10:47                             ` Brian Drummond
2010-08-14 13:58                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15  0:23                                 ` Brian Drummond
2010-08-14 14:51                               ` (see below)
2010-08-15  0:58                                 ` Brian Drummond
2010-08-15  1:58                                   ` (see below)
2010-08-15 10:31                                     ` Brian Drummond
2010-08-13 15:37                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-16 13:29                     ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-16 14:09                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-18 14:00                         ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-18 16:38                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-19 18:52                             ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-19 19:48                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-13 16:58                   ` (see below)
2010-08-14 16:13                   ` Charles H. Sampson
2010-08-16 13:45                     ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2010-08-15 12:32 ` Florian Weimer
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