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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Hashing on System.Address
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Date: 2005-06-15T09:27:09+02:00

Hi Randy,

> That's one of the reasons that Ada 2006 adds the "Mod" attribute. You could
> use that to discard any extra bits. (If you want to keep them, well, that
> gets messier.).

I didn't know about 'Mod - it will certainly be useful.  Luckily GNAT seems to have
implemented it.

> So I'd use something like:
...

Interesting suggestion!

Thanks again,

Duncan.