From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Bit manipulation facilities in Ada
Date: 1998/11/22
Date: 1998-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <739bkp$u3p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: matthew_heaney-ya023680002111981903250001@news.ni.net
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<matthew_heaney-ya023680002111981903250001@news.ni.net>,
matthew_heaney@acm.org (Matthew Heaney) wrote:
> For example, your professor may not realize that if you
> use a rep clause on a
> record, then no explicit bit manipulation by the client
> is required.
That's a weak point, since C can also do the equivalent of
rep clauses on records, or close to it, with bit field
specifications (indeed for quite a while GNAT translated
all record rep clauses to corresponding C structs with bit
fields).
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-21 0:00 Bit manipulation facilities in Ada Robert T. Sagris
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Srinivasan, R
1998-11-22 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-11-23 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-24 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1998-11-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-11-22 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-11-22 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-11-23 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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