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Subject: Re: Newbie question: How does one do bit manipulation in Ada?
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>Okay, thanks. I didn't look at package Interfaces, but obviously I
  You can define your own modular types, or arrays of booleans, or packed
bit fields in a representation clause.  Interfaces does conveniently
predefine the sort of thing you are used to in C, though.