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From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <jeltsch@tu-cottbus.de>
Subject: Re: Newbie question : types , representation
Date: 1999/08/23
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> [...]
> > Also I will need some kind of assignment to that modular type,
> say aVar
> > := 2#00000011#. This will assign the value 3 to aVar ? Is this
> > guaranteed to have that bit pattern ?
>
> nope, and of course there is no such guarantee in C either
> [...]

Oops! I thought shifting on modular types would not work with the internal
representation of the value but with its binary representation so that these
operations would be platform independent. Is this really not the case? If not
wouldn't this mean that the shift operations are useless if you want to write
portable code?

Wolfgang

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