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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: shifting bits
Date: 29 Aug 2004 18:58:19 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:

> In Ada, you would to an Unchecked_Conversion to an array of bits,
> and access each bit by position number.  You can do that from any
> type.

This is likely to be endian-dependent .. probably better to shift

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