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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:40:16 +0200
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Marius Amado-Alves wrote:

> Note that I don't do bit shifting. Instead I multiply or divide by a 
> magnitude. I don't think bit shifting is portable.

Why should language defined Interfaces.Shift_Right,
Interfaces.Shift_Right_Arithmetic, Rotate etc. be any less
portable than language defined arithmetic, as implemented
by the same compiler?


-- Georg