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From: milouz <a.michelizza@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Address and bit mask
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Ok, thank you very much for all your answers, but I'm not really more
advanced. Let me summarize :

- my question was about address arithmetic (howto ?)
- Some fellows gave me cues about the use of the
System.Storage_Elements, but without gaving any concrete example.
- Some others just wandered about the need of doing address
arithmetic.

Hum... well... I still do not know how to do some simple arithmetic
with address. So, let me give you an example in C :

  p = (char*) (((unsigned long)p + ALIGN_MASK) & ~ALIGN_MASK);

How do you write that in Ada ?