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From: Jeff Carter <carter@spam.innocon.com>
Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management
Date: 1997/05/07
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Date: 1997-05-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Michael F Brenner wrote:
...
> think they have been solved. In recent posts, I have been told that there
> are machine- and compiler-independent ways within Ada-95 to
>    - put bits into a byte
>    - do stream_IO
>    - select alternate bodies for packages
>      (for example, 1000 device drivers with the same visible part,
>      of which one is selected as part of a computer program)
> 
> But I do not know how to accomplish these things in a machine- and
> compiler-independent manner, using the pragmas, attributes, and features
> of the Ada-95 language in the ISO standard. Therefore, either I am
...

1. See the operations of modular types.
2. See the packages Ada.Streams and Ada.Streams.Stream_Io.
3. I don't understand what you're asking about.

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