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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bit manipulation facilities in Ada
Date: 1998/11/22
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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.