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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Bitmanipulation in Ada
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:31:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Bernd Specht wrote:
>> Sorry, I'm missing something... Are "I" and "b" different views of
>> the same address space?
>>
>
>
> Sorry, I and b are as mentioned earlier:
>
>>> TYPE ov is record
>>> case boolean of
>>>   true : i : integer;
>>>   false  : byte_array;
>>> end;
>>> end;

Ok so I is a 32-bit integer and b is a packed array of boolean (in your demo
a 32-bit 'byte').