From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.124.100 with SMTP id w64mr3087630yhh.57.1403525107739; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.33.97 with SMTP id q1mr12605obi.20.1403525107486; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!i13no10168048qae.1!news-out.google.com!qf4ni15igc.0!nntp.google.com!uq10no5553689igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.109.190.88; posting-account=mOyWBQoAAAD7S-NBmMUOr9hRClcL0vqR NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.190.88 References: <7eaee5fc-2045-4bb3-8b16-d757b54760da@googlegroups.com> <623dacba-5886-4b16-8694-950e7cc5a626@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cleanest Ada way to do this? From: rrr.eee.27@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:05:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Original-Bytes: 1735 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187196 Date: 2014-06-23T05:05:07-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, June 23, 2014 1:57:39 PM UTC+2, Simon Clubley wrote: > I see they are also using Character'Pos for the conversion although they > are also using a more generic approach of treating each data I/O line in > isolation instead of as a related block of 4 contiguous lines. > AFAIR that was due to code size (four single bit assignments being shorter than a byte write!) and due to flexibility for wiring the data lines. Rolf