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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,91b14dfe22ec5b78 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Signed vs Natural/32-bits vs 31 bits References: <35f054ea.0410250743.45a14771@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <35f054ea.0410250743.45a14771@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:40:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098744053 63.184.105.213 (Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:40:53 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:40:53 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5698 Date: 2004-10-25T22:40:53+00:00 List-Id: If there both numeric types, you're far better off using a normal type conversion than Unchecked_Conversion. If in fact you're using Natural, most likely objects are actually 32 bits, and the message is meaningless. But I would check first to make sure this is so. -- Jeff Carter "So if I understand 'The Matrix Reloaded' correctly, the Matrix is basically a Microsoft operating system--it runs for a while and then crashes and reboots. By design, no less. Neo is just a memory leak that's too hard to fix, so they left him in ... The users don't complain because they're packed in slush and kept sedated." Marin D. Condic 65