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Subject: Re: How do you bitwise operations in Ada '83 and '95
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On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 11:29 +0200, Colin Paul Gloster wrote:


> No actual implementation is required to have a datatype for Annex B 
> identical to a replacement of Interfaces.Unsigned_n in another 
> implementation.

Well, yes, the Unsigned_n types are per implementation.
Realistically, how is

  type Time is mod 2 ** 96;

any more portable than Unsigned_96?

The definition might express in a better way that there is no
dependence on hardware.