From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,435e65f4acf8bd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-16 15:27:39 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rajagopalan Srinivasan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <93se2v$nen$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se> <3A622CE5.89C9378E@worldnet.att.net> <93vkl3$1j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94058v$f3m$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Subject: Re: bitstreams X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:26:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.77.88.247 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 979687570 12.77.88.247 (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:26:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:26:10 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4075 Date: 2001-01-16T23:26:10+00:00 List-Id: in fact the basic technique used here was designed many many years ago using a VAX (VMS and ELN) Ada compiler. "Robert Dewar" wrote in message news:94058v$f3m$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > In article <93vkl3$1j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote: > > Beware, though... this is implementation-dependent. If the > > compiler doesn't represent a packed array of boolean as a bit > > vector, it doesn't work. > > That's misleading, any compiler that conforms to Annex C must > properly pack array of Boolean, and surely no one would use > a non-annex C compiler in a context like this (virtually all > Ada 95 compilers in current use implement Annex C). > > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/