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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: Representation clauses and streams
Date: 1999/12/29
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> >    Bits_Per_Octet : constant := 8;
> >
> >    type One_Octet_Type   is range 0 .. 2**(1*Bits_Per_Octet) - 1;
> >    for One_Octet_Type'Size use Bits_Per_Octet;
> >
> > is written as a two-octet value to a stream (Stream_Element'Size is,
> 
> Hmm. I'm curious what would happen if you changed that type to a modular
> type of the same range.

It works, thanks. In fact, it seems as if GNAT takes the sign bit into
account, which is, in my eyes, quite unnecessary.