From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Ada And Alternate System Architectures
Date: 23 Aug 2001 15:57:17 -0700
Date: 2001-08-23T15:57:17-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yec1ym2e65u.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9m3h4n$onh$1@news.online-isp.com
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
[...]
> Types like Character and Stream_Element can have any size appropriate to
> the hardware. The main problem is importing and exporting data created
> in such formats.
Well, Character has to support at least 256 values (128 in Ada 83), so
it can't be a 6-bit type.
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-23 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 16:01 Ada And Alternate System Architectures Gary Scott
2001-08-23 17:09 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-23 18:22 ` Gary Scott
2001-08-23 18:45 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-23 17:10 ` Claude SIMON
2001-08-23 18:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-08-23 22:57 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2001-08-24 6:55 ` Petter Fryklund
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