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	description: "[
		Platform-dependent properties.
		This class is an ancestor to all developer-written classes.
	]"
	status: "See notice at end of class"
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"

class interface
	PLATFORM

feature -- Access bits size

	boolean_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type BOOLEAN

	character_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type CHARACTER

	double_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type DOUBLE

	integer_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type INTEGER

	pointer_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type POINTER

	real_bits: INTEGER
			-- Number of bits in a value of type REAL

feature -- Access bytes size

	boolean_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type BOOLEAN

	character_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type CHARACTER

	double_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type DOUBLE

	integer_16_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type INTEGER_16

	integer_64_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type INTEGER_64

	integer_8_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type INTEGER_8

	integer_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type INTEGER

	pointer_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type POINTER

	real_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type REAL

	wide_character_bytes: INTEGER
			-- Number of bytes in a value of type WIDE_CHARACTER

invariant

		-- from ANY
	reflexive_equality: standard_is_equal (Current)
	reflexive_conformance: conforms_to (Current)

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	library: "[
			EiffelBase: Library of reusable components for Eiffel.
	]"
	status: "[
			Copyright 1986-2001 Interactive Software Engineering (ISE).
			For ISE customers the original versions are an ISE product
			covered by the ISE Eiffel license and support agreements.
	]"
	license: "[
			EiffelBase may now be used by anyone as FREE SOFTWARE to
			develop any product, public-domain or commercial, without
			payment to ISE, under the terms of the ISE Free Eiffel Library
			License (IFELL) at http://eiffel.com/products/base/license.html.
	]"
	source: "[
			Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
			ISE Building
			360 Storke Road, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
			Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869
			Electronic mail <info@eiffel.com>
			Customer support http://support.eiffel.com
	]"
	info: "[
			For latest info see award-winning pages: http://eiffel.com
	]"

end -- class PLATFORM