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Subject: Re: quiz for Sequential_IO Read
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On 09/03/2017 01:01 PM, Frank Buss wrote:
>     type Byte is range 0..255;

Note that Byte is a signed type, so Byte'Base will have a range that includes 
-255, and Byte'Base'Size will probably be 16. So I'd expect it to read 16 bits 
at a time. That is

A = 16#6568# = 25960, and
B = 16#6C6C# = 27756

C would then be zero.

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