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From: Willem <willem@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:52:22 +0000 (UTC)
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jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net wrote:
) -- Highest bit set
) with Ada.Text_Io;
) with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar;
)
) procedure Highest_Bit_Set is
)    Num : Integer;
)    type Index_Type is mod 32;
)    type Bit_Array is array(Index_Type) of Boolean;
)    pragma Pack(Bit_Array);
)    Overlay : Bit_Array;
)    for Overlay'Address use Num'Address;
)    Start, Stop : Time;
) begin
)    Start := Clock;
)    Num := 0;

Are you sure the compiler doesn't recognise that 'Num' is constant
and precalculate the endresult, by the way ?
I think a test that loops over different values of 'Num' would be better.

Maybe a print of the assembly that the compiler spits out from this
code would be nice to have a look at as well.


SaSW, Willem
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