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Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com> writes:
> As I said, I turned a bunch of ugly C into a few lines of pretty Ada
> for a skeptic.

You could write the C code similarly to the Ada, using a union.  I don't
know why the C program isn't written that way.  Maybe it is very old.