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On Aug 30, 5:14=A0pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> If the reason you want to do address arithmetic is something else,
> though, you're welcome to ask about it, but rather than giving us C
> code with no context and asking us how to translate it, please give us
> a bigger-picture description of what you're trying to accomplish

Ok, so I'll try to be more precise.
I have to parse a list of chunks which are 4 bytes aligned. Each chunk
is like this:

  [ size |    data     ]

The 'size' field is a 32-bit unsigned integer and it's the size of the
whole chunk.
The 'data' field has various lenght (>=3D 1 byte).

I can solve that problem in a C-ish style, but I wonder what is the
proper way to solve that problem in Ada.