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Subject: Re: Binary opperations under Ada?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:39:08 +0200
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Le Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:23:17 +0200, Trogdor <bgates@aol.com> a =C3=A9cri=
t:

> Greetings!
Great, nice opening for a bombing (lol, reference to your previous messa=
ge)

> -) I want to read in a raw binary file and perform bit manipulation
> on the data.
Suppose you have a model for these data ? Bits, is just low level  =

representation, OK ?

> -) I vaguely remember seeing a post about a module package for low
> level stuff, cut han no longer find it in the group.
Low level does not necessarily implies modular types. You talked about  =

bits-representation, while we may better talk about Representation, as a=
  =

single word. Bits may be part of the party, or may not be. Depends on th=
e  =

representation, the model, etc.

> -) All (four) of my Ada books were written in the '90's and don't
> help much with this subject.
What you need was already there in Ada 83 if I am not wrong.

> -) I am running GNAT under MinGW under WinXP 64.
>
> Could some kind soul please...
> - Let me know just what I am looking for.
> - Where do I get it?
Depends on many things. I could tell you about some most common solution=
s  =

in this area, but will not until you tell more aboute the data models, t=
he  =

data representations, and other possible requirements.

> - Where do I read about it so I don't have to pester the group with
> dozens of questions?
Asking questions is not pesting! Always better to ask question than stay=
  =

ignorant or live with wrong assumptions.

> Thanks in Advance!
You welcome, ... and =E2=80=9CWelcome Aboard=E2=80=9D as some ones will =
not be long to  =

tell you