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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Bitordering? was Re: Bitmanipulation in Ada
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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