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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Address and bit mask
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:47:22 +0200
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:33:29 -0700 (PDT), milouz wrote:

>> To start with, check out package System.Storage_Elements. It at least
>> has To_Address/To_Integer subprograms.
> 
> As far as I understand, your solution is to convert the address in
> address_integer, manipulating it, and then converting it in address.
> And all that stuff is because Address type is defined as private.
> Am I right ?

There is Storage_Offset type in System.Storage_Elements. Address arithmetic
is most likely to be done on the offsets to some definite address, for
example, alignment computations. Bit-wise operations are either meaningless
or machine-specific.

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