Re: Creating several types from a base type and conversion

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Ken Roberts <alisonken1@gmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 3:38:27 PM UTC-8, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Ken Roberts <snip> writes:
>> 
>> > On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 2:35:52 PM UTC-8, Simon Wright wrote:

>> I can 100% assure you that the difference in results IS NOT caused by
>> a difference in compilers: it IS caused by the fact that the code you
>> sent us is not the same as the code you compiled.
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jZv-GcGL3PdqYqi60eIYZnRIndudZqic/view?usp=sharing
>
> Here's a google drive link to check out - no changes and no copy/paste

Great, so that's a 31-line file, whereas the source you posted has 92
lines.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ada/2gqi1zxDk4A/pUO5HBQgCQAJ

I took "here is the code I'm working on" to mean "here is the code I'm
working on" rather than "this is a sketch of the sort of thing I'd like
to do, haven't tried to compile it yet".

Anyway, you've got lots of good hints from others here, so I'll shut up,
except for saying that I'd probably go with Bill Findlay's view:
representation clauses where endianness is involved are a lot more
confusing than shifts and masks.