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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: creating a 16 bit value from 2 8 bit values in Ada
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<uwur96s19.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
 
> One advantage of this version is it should take no code. 

No, it is probably much less efficient, because it forces
things into memory.


> One drawback
> is you have to get the byte-endianness right.

A big drawback. This is definitely not the right approach.