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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: bitstreams
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:39:59 GMT
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In article <93vkl3$1j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote:
> Beware, though... this is implementation-dependent. If the
> compiler doesn't represent a packed array of boolean as a bit
> vector, it doesn't work.

That's misleading, any compiler that conforms to Annex C must
properly pack array of Boolean, and surely no one would use
a non-annex C compiler in a context like this (virtually all
Ada 95 compilers in current use implement Annex C).


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