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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Pascal to ADA
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:24:16 +0000 (UTC)
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* Tilman Gloetzner wrote:
> 1) what is a effecient way of rewriting the following code fragement in ADA
> ?  With the absolute keyword, Pascal  effectively casts
> N, M, and R from a 4 byte integer type to an array of 4 bytes by an address
> access.  I guess to implement the same mechanism in
> ADA is not in line with ADA's philosophy.
> 
> 2) How do I mask out bits in a (unsigned) number type, as logical operators
> work only on booleans ?

type Do_It_Right is mod 2**(4*8);