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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: Fortran's Equivalence
Date: 1997/03/26
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>  BIT_PATTERN : System.Unsigned_32.  The first 4 bits represent 
> an integer A, the next 17 represent another record B, the last eleven 
> represent an integer C. 
  I assume there's some reason you couldn't make Bit_Pattern a record
and use a representation clause to specify that A is in the first 4
bits, etc?  
  Regardless of how you do things, I trust you've considered the
portability problems of 'endedness'.