Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 23:54:55 11/13/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 15:55:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >You can do that in C with bit-fields as well, but it both it and ADA are >horribly >slow when you fiddle with bitfields. I (of course) know that you can do bitfields in C. But they are not as precisely defined in C as they are in Ada. And they're not necesarily "horribly slow". It depends on the compiler. In Ada, the specification is more precise and allows the compiler to do an excellent job, if the compiler writers have. In C (and C++) there are some implementation-defined behavior that makes bitfields less useful. Besides, Ada has more advantages over C, than this. /David
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