From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4e9860765413318c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-24 00:48:41 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9m0gn6$b6j$1@zeus.orl.lmco.com> <3B843C0C.9A3282B@raytheon.com> <3B844CE7.B6C85990@san.rr.com> <3B850FA6.21711F4@raytheon.com> <5ee5b646.0108231600.5364fec2@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Hi byte and Lo Byte Question Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:52:17 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3b860459@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 24 Aug 2001 08:38:01 GMT, sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.43.194.69!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12373 Date: 2001-08-24T08:52:17+01:00 List-Id: > But shifts and masking operations don't exist in Ada 83! Unless you consider arrays of booleans to allow masking. If a compiler managed to optimise that, I would definitely consider that to be pretty smart! :-)