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Re: Ada policy

Robert Dewar wrote: 
Actually the point in Ada is that you don't need to "cater for
portability across different implementations", since it is perfectly
practical to write in completely standard portable Ada. In C, you
can't help running into portability issues because fundamental
definitions like the characteristics of int are implementation
dependent, and so you are forced to mess with conditional
compilation.

I am certainly not an Ada expert, so I can't comment on its abilities (or lack thereof).

However, I *can* comment on you understanding of C. Standard C (approved about five years ago) allows explicit declarations of integer sizes via the types in stdint.h. What you have encountered is either old code, or code written by people who are not aware of explicit type sizes.

This sort of "my language is better than your language" stuff is just plain silly, from any side of the issue.

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Scott Robert Ladd
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