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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Binary opperations under Ada?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:24:32 +0200
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Trogdor wrote:

> -) I want to read in a raw binary file and perform bit manipulation on
>    the data.

Is MinGW a Unix/POSIX layer?  In that case, you might want to use the
Ada POSIX API (Florist).  It contains a package POSIX.Memory_Mapping.
Using that, you can map your whole file into memory, and overlay it with
a packed array of Boolean.

Greetings,

Jacob
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