From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bit manipulation facilities in Ada
Date: 1998/11/22
Date: 1998-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7vaf1j3bbw.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 739bfk$u0g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
> Ada is far better than C for this purpose. In addition to
> all the general (and quite correct) propaganda about the
> general superiority of Ada, there is one particular feature
> that is missing in Ada, namely packed bit arrays. In C you
^^^^^^^ 'present', I think?
> have to program this your self, as an array of bytes, which
> you then do bit manipulation on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-22 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-21 0:00 Bit manipulation facilities in Ada Robert T. Sagris
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Srinivasan, R
1998-11-22 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright [this message]
1998-11-23 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-24 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1998-11-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-11-22 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-11-23 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-11-22 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-24 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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