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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Unconstrained genericity
Message-ID: <1781@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 01:42:41 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc.
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In-reply-to: genly@bubble.multiflow.COM's message of 6 Feb 90 21:33:41 GMT

In article <1221@m3.mfci.UUCP> genly@bubble.multiflow.COM (Chris Hind Genly) writes:

   This would lead me to believe that integers, reals, and references
   must all be the same size.  Which would, on most machines, imply that
   Eiffel reals are C floats, and not C doubles.

Currently, this all of this is true.  Since everything was at first
assumed to fit in 32-bits, the introduction of 64-bit doubles has caused
ISE some problems.  Currently, doubles are treated as expanded instances
of a 64-bit class type I believe.  ISE is supposed to be working on
making their use more efficient.

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