From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,
	FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,826cd690cb6a7585
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o9g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: milouz <a.michelizza@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Address and bit mask
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:33:29 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: <80d7ce1b-8621-47aa-8d03-4d168fd52b30@o9g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>
References: <71159ccc-bf20-4fcf-a7f1-3b90629c1ecb@l4g2000vbv.googlegroups.com>
 <4b8745d2-11fa-4cd4-bfc3-127501bef0aa@eb1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.211.130
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1314635708 30241 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2011 16:35:08
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:35:08 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: o9g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.124.211.130;
 posting-account=2RsWdAoAAACKmfJMpyMjxrxuBA0nNyCZ
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-Google-Web-Client: true
X-Google-Header-Order: HNKRUAELSC
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML,
 like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.107 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe)
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20718
Date: 2011-08-29T09:33:29-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


> To start with, check out package System.Storage_Elements. It at least
> has To_Address/To_Integer subprograms.

As far as I understand, your solution is to convert the address in
address_integer, manipulating it, and then converting it in address.
And all that stuff is because Address type is defined as private.
Am I right ?

> Size/range of addresses are rather target dependent, so I'm curious as
> to what you wish to make 'portable'?...

I mean a solution that works with the Address type without the need to
redefine everything.