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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: How do you bitwise operations in Ada '83 and '95
Date: 19 Jul 2006 10:20:40 -0400
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"Chris L" <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:

> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> > However, you raise an important point, and that is that we should ask
> > the OP what he is trying to achieve.
> 
> Jeff, my intent was to investigate and develop a working Ada library
> corresponding to the C source code bitwise operators: "&", "|", "<<",
> ">>", etc.

But Ada already has these things for modular types (and for
packed arrays of boolean, which is really a higher-level feature),
so why do you want to create such a library?

By the way, since we're arguing about terminology, I do not consider the
shift operators to be "bitwise".  To me, the bitwise logical operators
are the ones that operator independently on the bits of an operand (for
"not"), or corresponding pairs of bits (for "and", "or", and "xor").
In other words, the value of bit number N of the operand(s) affects ONLY
the value of bit number N of the result.

- Bob