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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Simon Wright wrote:

> On our side there's quite a lot of generated code to cope with
> mapping Booleans to packed arrays of bits, driven by UML tags in the
> models, but once the data is in the 32-bit form we do indeed use
> Streams.

Why not use representation clauses for doing those mappings?  (or is
the generated code actually mostly generated representation clauses?)

Jacob
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