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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Hi byte and Lo Byte Question
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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?)