From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Hi byte and Lo Byte Question
Date: 23 Aug 2001 17:00:05 -0700
Date: 2001-08-24T00:00:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0108231600.5364fec2@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B850FA6.21711F4@raytheon.com
Mark Johnson <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com> wrote in message news:<3B850FA6.21711F4@raytheon.com>...
> They work, along with several others. I picked the ones w/ mask & shifts
> because older compilers tend to generate good code for them [the
> examples you provide require the compiler to detect division by a power
> of two and convert...].
But shifts and masking operations don't exist in Ada 83!
So "older compilers" won't get far that way (and in any case, a
compiler that does not recognize division by powers of 2 is a bit
creaky -- are there really such?)
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-22 14:48 Hi byte and Lo Byte Question mop
2001-08-22 15:56 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-08-22 16:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-08-22 23:11 ` Mark Johnson
2001-08-23 0:23 ` Darren New
2001-08-23 14:13 ` Mark Johnson
2001-08-23 17:15 ` Darren New
2001-08-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-08-24 7:52 ` Martin Dowie
2001-08-23 14:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-24 8:09 ` Peter Dulimov
2001-08-24 16:20 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-08-24 17:05 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-24 17:46 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-08-25 7:15 ` Simon Wright
2001-08-27 16:33 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-08-23 1:26 ` DuckE
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