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Subject: Re: How do you bitwise operations in Ada '83 and '95
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:03:23 -0400
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Marius Amado-Alves <marius@amado-alves.info> writes:

> Note that I don't do bit shifting. Instead I multiply or divide by a
> magnitude. I don't think bit shifting is portable.

See LRM B.2, Interfaces.Shift_Left, Shift_Right, Rotate_Left, Rotate_Right.

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