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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Type casting question
Date: 1999/12/21
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In article <385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> Question: Could someone please provide some solution
>   to the below?
>
> I have this question in the conversion of values
> between the string and the my own type shown below.
>
> type Bit_5 is range 2#0# .. 2#11111#;
>     for Bit_5'Size use 5;
> subtype Size_Type is Bit_5;


By the way, it is almost certainly wrong to have the base
type of Bit_5 be signed.

Almost certainly what you want here is

  type Bit_5 is mod 2 ** 5;

The size clause is unnecessary in either case, since the
default size in both cases is obviously 5!


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