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ChristopherL wrote:
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> What I want to do is this. I have a variable holding the base 10 value
> 200. It has a certain bit representation. If the variable was an
> integer of 16 bits it's representation would be something such as
> 0000000011001000. For give me if I'm wrong. Anyway, what I'd like to
> do is put that exact bit representation in another variable of a
> different type.

Why do you want to do that?

You'll find that you get better responses if you describe the problem you're 
trying to solve, not what you think the solution to it is. Ada works best when 
it's used the way it was intended, and that's sometimes different from the 
low-level approaches required in other languages.

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