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Subject: how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types?
Date: 1999/03/03
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Date: 1999-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
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greetings,

I have an integer value that is returned from some call (its status).

I'd like to take the bit-wise "and" of this value against
another value (16#FFFF#). (i.e. in C, do: 0xffff & i)

Ada does not allow this, as both operands must be modular integer types
(i.e. range from 0 to some positive value).

what can one do? do I need to convert integer value returned from signed
to unsigned (i.e. modular)? how?

cheers,
Bill.