From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: creating a 16 bit value from 2 8 bit values in Ada
Date: 3 Aug 2002 07:37:45 -0700
Date: 2002-08-03T14:37:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208030637.3fcf6f15@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uwur96s19.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<uwur96s19.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
> One advantage of this version is it should take no code.
No, it is probably much less efficient, because it forces
things into memory.
> One drawback
> is you have to get the byte-endianness right.
A big drawback. This is definitely not the right approach.
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2002-08-02 1:40 creating a 16 bit value from 2 8 bit values in Ada Mark
2002-08-02 2:07 ` Darren New
2002-08-02 8:36 ` John McCabe
2002-08-02 18:21 ` Stephen Leake
2002-08-03 14:37 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-08-03 0:52 ` Kevin Krieser
2002-08-03 1:59 ` SteveD
2002-08-03 2:02 ` creating a 16 bit value from 2 8 bit values in Ada (again) SteveD
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