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From: "Stephen Frackelton" <stephen.frackelton@baesystems.com>
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Subject: bit shift
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:03:32 -0000
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does a bit shift operation / mechanism exist in ada83 ?
i'm doing some checksum algorithm work and want to cyclically rotate bits a
number of places within a word.