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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: What is a byte?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:15:00 +0100
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Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

> When I need to pass a byte to a C function, which Ada type should I
> use?

I'd have thought you'd use signed_char or unsigned_char, from
Interfaces.C, depending on what the called function expects.