Re: Base64-Encoding

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Stefan Bellon a �crit :
> On Mon, 15 Oct, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 
>> Stefan Bellon wrote:
>>
>>>       Padded_Data : String (1 .. Padded_Length) := (others =>
>>> ASCII.NUL); --  Padded input data.
>> [...]
>>>    begin
>>>       Padded_Data (1 .. Data'Length) := Data;
>>>       --  Initialize data into padded-data (can't be done with
>>> aggregate --  in elaboration part, sadly).
>> Why?  I may have missed something obvious, but I would have thought
>> that
>>
>>    Padded_Data : String (1 .. Padded_Length) := Data & (others =>
>> ASCII.NUL);
>>
>> would work fine.
> 
> This results in:
> 
>    error: "others" choice not allowed here
How many elements are covered byt "others" cannot be determined in this 
context, but this should work:
    Padded_Data : String (1 .. Padded_Length)
       := Data & (Data'Length+1 .. Padded_Length => ASCII.NUL);

> I hoped for this as well, but it looks like the attribute Bit_Order is
> only defined for record types. This is what 13.5.3 says and indeed GNAT
> refuses to accept a 'Bit_Order on Six_Bits or the array thereof.

Bit_Order is about bit numbering, it has nothing to do with endianness

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