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From: Kevin Chadwick <kc-usenet@chadwicks.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: In precision typing we trust
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>>> This is an unfair comparison, because Ada is a general purpose
>>> language. Direct hardware access is a part of Ada's functionality.
>>
>>It does it in such a clumsy way compared to C, or even Python.
>>
>
>Ada is the best language by far for mapping registers to hardware or data
> packets via representation clauses. I have found many bugs in STs svd files
> and C code because of Adas type system.

The reason it's so good aside from Gnats excellent size checks etc. is due
 to precision types :-)

-- 
Regards, Kc