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From: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: creating a 16 bit value from 2 8 bit values in Ada
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 08:36:34 GMT
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On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 02:07:24 GMT, Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:

>Mark wrote:
>> Could someone show me how to concatenate the Hi and Lo components?
>> The end result - obviously - would be a 16 bit value.  I've waded
>
>Wouldn't it be something along the lines of 
>  result := lo + 256 * hi;

That's pretty much what I would have said!