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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
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: Ada83: for certain things like bit manipulations, you have to
:        use compiler-dependent libraries or interface with bits
:        of code in C.

I've done huge numbers of bit manipulations in Ada83 without doing either of
these options.