Re: bit manipulation

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <37072A45.2B3BCE90@home.com>,
  jcchow@interchange.ubc.ca wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to do bit manipulation such as bitwise-and and
> bitwise or?
>
> I am a C programmer.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jack Chow

(Assuming you are using the most recent version of Ada)

There are several ways of doing this. Which one is right for you depends on
what you want to do with the object.

If you also want to be able to manipulate the same objects as integers ( +, -,
/, *, etc), then Ada's modular integer types were designed for this purpose.

If all you ever want to look at individual bits and perform bitwise
operations, then you can use a packed array of booleans indexed by an
enumeration:

  type Status_Bit_Indices is (Success, Parity, ...);
  type Status_Bit_Array is array (Status_Bit_Indices) of Boolean;
  pragma Pack Status_Bit_Array;
  for Status_Bit_Array'size use 32;

The boolean operations "and", "or", "not" etc. are predefined to work in a
bitwise manner on such arrays.

T.E.D.

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