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From: "Vladimir Bednikov" <Vladimir.Bednikov@ebor.com>
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Subject: bitwise operations in Ada95
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:58:42 +0930
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Hi all.

Is there a way of performing bitwise operations on basic
types, e.g, integers, floats etc as in the bitwise and '&' and
bitwise or '|' in c.

thanks in advance