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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: bitwise operations in Ada95
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:50:41 +0000 (UTC)
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* Vladimir Bednikov wrote:
>Is there a way of performing bitwise operations on basic
>types, e.g, integers, floats etc as in the bitwise and '&' and
>bitwise or '|' in c.

On (packed) arrays of boolean as well as on boolean or modular types you may
use 'and', 'or', 'not' ...

If you like to play with bits on other types you have to create a (non
portable) view using Unchecked_Conversion or (portable) representation
clauses.