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From: Marin David Condic <diespammer@flinet.com>
Subject: Re: Bit manipulation facilities in Ada
Date: 1998/11/23
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I'll agree that Ada has as-good-as-or-better features for bit manipulation
than C. The original question, however, was to find a good source for
learning how to do this. The Ada Reference Manual certainly spells out all
the operators and declarations necessary to do bit-twiddling - but not all
conveniently in one section. I'd think that you might find some of this in
a "Ada for Recovering C Programmers" text, but myself, not being a
Recovering C programmer, I've never read any of these texts. Try looking at
www.adahome.com in the bibliography - you might locate something there.

MDC

dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> > Robert T. Sagris wrote in message
> > <36573C4D.DA431821@physics.purdue.edu>...
> <snip>
> > The Professor has already recommended C for its built in
> > Bit operators.
> > But I would like to try it in Ada, as I've never used in
> > a class.
> > I could use the practice.
> >
> > Robbi Sagris
>
> Ada is far better than C for this purpose. In addition to
> all the general (and quite correct) propaganda about the
> general superiority of Ada, there is one particular feature
> that is missing in Ada, namely packed bit arrays. In C you
> have to program this your self, as an array of bytes, which
> you then do bit manipulation on.
> <snip>

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