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Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
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Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com> writes:

> This may require two additional lines after the type declarations:
> 1) for Byte'Size use 8;
> 2) for Word'Size use 32;
>
> I'm not sure if those would be necessary, but I think so.

Or you could use the types in Interfaces, where this is done
already. Those types are intended for exactly this job.