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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8309f2bc055237c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Bit manipulation Date: 2000/11/09 Message-ID: <4bHjnjxVodhb@eisner.decus.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691595082 References: <8u8v6n$b7o$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <2WTH$pdrCfOd@eisner.decus.org> <8ub6kt$6nd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ubeq8$cgm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ubld2$hdd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ubsdm$nef$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 973775091 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 09 Nov 2000 13:04:51 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 13:04:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Ken Garlington" writes: > : Ada83: for certain things like bit manipulations, you have to > : use compiler-dependent libraries or interface with bits > : of code in C. > > I've done huge numbers of bit manipulations in Ada83 without doing either of > these options. Perhaps what you have written would not be portable to another compiler. Perhaps that is immaterial in your problem domain. It is in one of mine. But now I have an additional problem domain where portability becomes more important, so I am happy the effort went into Ada95. Larry Kilgallen Ada83 programmer