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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types?
Date: 1999/03/05
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In article <7boadc$9sm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  bourguet@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> And, obviously for you but perhaps not for the one who
> started the thread, there are places where the "correct"
> solution is simply a record type with the adequate
> representation clause.

Yes, true, in some cases, but this approach is fraught
with problems:

  1. assumptions about endianness
  2. assumptions about layout of records and bit orders
  3. assumptions about alignment etc

So you need to know what you are doing!

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