From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Bitordering? was Re: Bitmanipulation in Ada
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-08-21T16:55:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cg7upo$a8b$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: opsc2yf8zvp4pfvb@bram-2
Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote:
: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:57:40 +0200, Alfred Hilscher
: <SPAM@alfred-hilscher.de> wrote:
:
:> When I declare an boolean array with eight elements 1..8 (e.g. to
:> address a hardware port with eight status bits), how are they
:> ordered is X(1) the msb or the lsb of the byte?
:
: It is undefined.
:
: The typical way to deal with this kind of situation is to use a
: record type with a record representation clause. For example:
[...]
You might also be interested in the Bit Order paper by Norman Cohen
available in the grab bag at http://www.ada-auth.org
-- Georg
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-18 20:37 Bitmanipulation in Ada Bernd Specht
2004-08-18 20:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-08-18 21:10 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-18 21:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-08-18 21:18 ` Ed Falis
2004-08-19 17:30 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-19 17:44 ` Ed Falis
2004-08-19 0:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-08-19 17:44 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-19 18:09 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-19 18:28 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-19 19:31 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-19 20:29 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-20 21:31 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-19 19:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-08-19 19:57 ` Björn Persson
2004-08-20 0:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-08-19 21:24 ` Francois G. Dorais
2004-08-20 8:55 ` Pascal Obry
2004-08-20 7:26 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-20 21:20 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-20 21:39 ` Ed Falis
2004-08-18 21:14 ` (see below)
2004-08-18 21:56 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-19 15:25 ` (see below)
2004-08-19 15:50 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-18 21:53 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-18 22:59 ` Björn Persson
2004-08-19 8:08 ` Egil H. H�vik
2004-08-19 17:46 ` Bernd Specht
2004-08-20 20:57 ` Bitordering? was " Alfred Hilscher
2004-08-21 11:34 ` Nick Roberts
2004-08-21 14:00 ` Jim Rogers
2004-08-21 16:54 ` Simon Wright
2004-08-21 16:55 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2004-08-23 18:36 ` Alfred Hilscher
2004-08-23 18:47 ` Alfred Hilscher
2004-08-23 22:39 ` Nick Roberts
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