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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada
Date: 1999/11/09
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In article <3826FD9C.37446C29@callnetuk.com>,
  Nick Roberts <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
>    type Bit_Integer is mod 2;
>    type Bit_Array is array (Natural range <>) of Bit_Integer;

I don't see the introduction of these types in the RM as being
a helpful step in improving portability. Can you give an example
of something that *in practice* is a portability problem now,
that would be no longer a problem. I am not really interested
in problems that might happen in theory, but do not happen in
practice.


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