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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
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Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Actually, Ada requires 16 bit integers (at minimum).
> 
> You're right, I had forgotten that.
> 
> It also implicitly requires support for at least 24-bit fixed-point
> (see the requirements for type Duration, 9.6(27)).

...which is kind of silly.  Why would an implementation want to support
less for integers than for fixed?

- Bob