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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:51:57 +0300
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On 18-10-17 01:33 , Randy Brukardt wrote:

> ... Given that pretty much no one should be using 'Address anyway,

Anyone doing HW interfacing with DMA I/O has to use 'Address, because 
that's what is programmed into the DMA channel. And that is quite common 
in embedded Ada programs that do not use an operating system for I/O.

I guess current users of Janus/Ada on MS Windows don't make such programs.

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