Data types

• Types
  • Names
    • Direct names
    • Other kinds of names
  • Objects
    • Constant and variable objects
    • View of an object
    • Named numbers
  • Scalar Types
    • Attributes
    • Ranges
    • Predecessor and Successor
    • Scalar To String Conversion
    • Width attribute
    • Other attributes
  • Enumerations
    • Enumerations as functions
    • Enumeration overloading
    • Position and Internal Code
  • Universal and Root Types
    • Universal Types
    • Root Types
  • Definite and Indefinite Subtypes
  • Incomplete types
  • Type view
    • Non-Record Private Types
  • Type conversion
    • Value conversion
    • View conversion
    • Implicit conversions
    • Conversion of other types
  • Qualified Expressions
    • Verifying subtypes
  • Default initial values
  • Deferred Constants
  • User-defined literals
• Types and Representation
  • Enumeration Representation Clauses
  • Data Representation
  • Sizes
    • Size aspect
    • Size attributes
    • Component size
    • Storage size
  • Alignment
  • Overlapping Storage
  • Packed Representation
    • Trade-offs
  • Record Representation and storage clauses
    • Storage Place Attributes
    • Using Representation Clauses
    • Derived Types And Representation Clauses
    • Representation on Bit Level
  • Changing Data Representation
    • Restrictions
  • Valid Attribute
  • Unchecked Union
  • Addresses
    • Address attribute
    • Address aspect
    • Address comparison
    • Address to integer conversion
    • Address arithmetic
  • Discarding names
• Shared variable control
  • Volatile
  • Independent
  • Atomic
  • Full-access only
    • Nonatomic full-access
    • Atomic full-access
    • Comparison: full-access and non-full-access types
  • Atomic operations
    • Atomic Exchange
• Records
  • Default Initialization
    • Dependencies
    • Initialization Order
    • Evaluation
    • Defaults and object declaration
    • Advanced Usages
  • Mutually dependent types
  • Null records
    • Simple Prototyping
    • Extending the prototype
    • More complex applications
    • Implementing the API
    • Tagged null records
  • Record discriminants
    • Known and unknown discriminant parts
    • Discriminant as constant property
    • Private types
    • Object declaration
    • Object assignments
    • Discriminant type
    • Default values
    • Derived types and subtypes
  • Discriminant constraints and operations
    • Discriminant constraints
    • Constrained Attribute
  • Unknown discriminants
    • Object declaration
    • Partial and full view
    • Derived types
  • Unconstrained subtypes
  • Variant parts
    • Discriminant type and value coverage
    • Record size
    • Ensuring valid information
    • Extending record types
  • Per-Object Expressions
    • Default value
    • Restrictions
• Aggregates
  • Container Aggregates
  • Record aggregates
    • <>
    • others
    • Record discriminants
  • Full coverage rules for Aggregates
  • Array aggregates
    • Positional and named array aggregates
    • Null array aggregate
    • |, <>, others
    • ..
    • Missing components
    • Iterated component association
    • Multidimensional array aggregates
    • <> and default values
  • Extension Aggregates
    • Assignments to objects of derived types
    • Example: Points
    • Using extension aggregates
    • More extension aggregates
    • with others
    • with null record
    • Extension aggregates and descendent types
  • Delta Aggregates
    • Delta Aggregates for Tagged Records
    • Delta Aggregates for Non-Tagged Records
    • Delta Aggregates for Arrays
• Arrays
  • Array constraints
    • Unconstrained array types
    • Constrained arrays
    • Constrained array types
  • Multidimensional Arrays
    • Unconstrained Multidimensional Arrays
    • Arrays of arrays
  • Derived array types and array subtypes
    • Derived array types
    • Array subtypes
• Strings
  • Character and String Literals
    • Character Literals
    • String Literals
  • Wide and Wide-Wide Strings
    • Text I/O
    • Wide and Wide-Wide String Handling
    • Bounded and Unbounded Wide and Wide-Wide Strings
  • String Encoding
    • UTF-8 encoding and decoding
    • UTF-8 size and length
    • UTF-16 encoding and decoding
  • UTF-8 applications
    • UTF-8 encoding in source-code files
    • Parsing UTF-8 files for Wide-Wide-String processing
  • Image attribute
    • Overview
    • Type'Image and Obj'Image
    • Wider versions of Image
    • Image attribute for non-scalar types
    • Image attribute for tagged types
    • Image attribute for task and protected types
  • Put_Image aspect
    • Overview
    • Complete Example of Put_Image
    • Relation to the Image attribute
    • Put_Image and derived types
    • Put_Image and tagged types
  • Universal text buffer
    • Overview
    • Additional procedures
• Numerics
  • Numeric Literals
    • Classification
    • Features and Flexibility
  • Universal Numeric Types
    • Universal Real and Integer
    • Universal Fixed
  • Base types
    • Base
  • Discrete and Real Numeric Types
    • Discrete Numeric Types
    • Real Numeric Types
  • Integer types
    • Predefined integer types
    • Custom integer types
    • Illegal integer definitions
    • System max. and min. values
    • Range of base type
  • Modular Types
    • System max. values for modulus
  • Floating-point types
    • Decimal precision
    • Predefined floating-point types
    • Custom floating-point types
    • Derived floating-point types and subtypes
    • Size of floating-point types
    • Custom size of floating-point types
    • Range of custom floating-point types and subtypes
    • Range of base type
    • System max. base digits and max. digits values
    • Illegal floating-point type declarations
  • Fixed-point types
    • Small and delta
  • Decimal fixed-point types
    • Decimal precision
    • Scale and delta
    • Derived decimal fixed-point types and subtypes
    • Size of decimal fixed-point types
    • Custom size of decimal fixed-point types
    • Range of decimal fixed-point types and subtypes
    • Type conversion using decimal types
    • Package Decimal
    • Illegal decimal fixed-point type declarations
    • Machine representation of decimal types
    • Operations on decimal types
    • Decimal vs. floating-point types
  • Big Numbers
    • Overview
    • Factorial
    • Conversions
    • Other features of big integers
    • Other operators for big integers
    • Big real and quotients
    • Range checks
• Numeric Attributes
  • Attributes of Modular Types
    • Modulus Attribute
    • Mod Attribute
    • Operations on modular types
  • Attributes of Floating-Point Types
    • Representation-oriented attributes
    • Primitive function attributes
  • Attributes of Fixed-Point types
    • Attributes of ordinary and decimal fixed-point types
    • Attributes of decimal fixed-point types