From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Rep-spec question
Date: 1999/11/11
Date: 1999-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccvh7913dw.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80cqb7$if9$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> There's also the minor issue that a "storage element" is not required to
> be 1 byte. But the vast majority of them (if not all) will be.
^^^^^^^^^^
The definition of "storage element" is of course determined by the hardware,
and most hardware these days has 8-bit bytes, but not all.
For example, the ADI SHARC chip has 32-bit storage elements,
so of course Averstar's SHARC Ada compiler reflects that.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-10 0:00 Rep-spec question Joe Wisniewski
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-11 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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