From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b14cbbd362590ac9
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Rep-spec question
Date: 1999/11/11
Message-ID: <wccvh7913dw.fsf@world.std.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 547344221
Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
References: <80ck3b$deu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <80clia$ein$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <80clr0$etf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <80cqb7$if9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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