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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab3fadb7cac7363c X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: milouz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Address arithmetic alternatives Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 03:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5bf3d787-c0b0-45c7-841f-0f08c93a3655@e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> References: <57e75a35-058c-4172-9a3d-e11e7c5f7697@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <70bda46e-e016-42e8-a0bb-7003ec1488ec@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <6355779b-dab3-4f78-a6f7-78f395426332@v8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.120.109.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1307616057 21385 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2011 10:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.120.109.79; posting-account=2RsWdAoAAACKmfJMpyMjxrxuBA0nNyCZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HNKRUAELSC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20685 Date: 2011-06-09T03:40:57-07:00 List-Id: > More correctly, you *think* you need to play with address arithmetic. You may be > right, but address arithmetic is needed extremely rarely in Ada. Ada has > alternatives to most address arithmetic in C. You're probably right. But what are those alternatives ? - Arnauld