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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:20:15 -0500, Mark Johnson
<Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com> wrote:


>Since Bit_Order is described in Chapter 13, all compilers should support
>it.

There is a differenc between supporting it and doing anything useful
with it, e.g. GNAT 3.12a2 or whatever it was that my last place had
for Solaris was quite happy for you to say:

for x'bit_order use a_order_first

but blew up when you tried

for x'bit_order use b_order_first

(Can't remember which way round a and b were!)