Re: How do you bitwise operations in Ada '83 and '95

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

tmoran@acm.org writes:

>    Ada is designed to be highly readable and to aid in creating
> correct programs.  Surely a record rep clause, and then simple usage
> of its components, is more readable, and more likely to be correct,
> and even more likely to generate optimized code, than source code
> littered with complex arithmetic expressions.

Unless you are concerned with endian-independence, of course, when the
rep clause becomes highly incomprehensible. I have a feeling that
shift&mask ends up more understandable and reviewable.