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"Marc A. Criley" <mcq95@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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<snip>
> The latest was the message buffer handling portion, wherein
> Unchecked_Conversion, 'Address, and an Interfaced memcpy routine were
> used to move the bits around from buffer to buffer, and to build and
> unpack messages.  Variant records and assignment statements would've
> worked just as well.

I smell 1553 (or such).  OOP works even better for packing/unpacking,
although you do have to convince people that it is OK in the application
domain!