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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Endian-Independent Rep Clauses
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:34:19 GMT
Date: 2004-01-27T03:34:19+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <%_kRb.28888$zj7.11003@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.29.1075168937.2270.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Here's a real-life example:
> 
> package SAL.Endianness is
>    Bit_Order      : constant := 1; -- 1 or -1
>    High_Bit_First : constant := 0; -- 0 or 1
>    Low_Bit_First  : constant := 1; -- opposite of High_Bit_First

Derive these from System.Default_Bit_Order.

I generally like to predefine a collection of useful bit numbers as well.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-26 13:30 Standard Ada Preprocessor Lionel.DRAGHI
2004-01-26 16:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-26 19:20   ` Endian-Independent Rep Clauses (was: Standard Ada Preprocessor) Jeffrey Carter
2004-01-27  1:03     ` Endian-Independent Rep Clauses Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-27  2:01       ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-27  3:16         ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-01-27  8:10           ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-27  3:34         ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-01-27  8:14           ` Stephen Leake
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