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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 14:58:51 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4hmlca$a30@solutions.solon.com> <4hn50pINN4r8@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <313EE686.25CD@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- In article <313EE686.25CD@lfwc.lockheed.com>,
- Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com> wrote:
- >Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >> The only thing that bitfields are good for, portably, is optimizing the
- >> storage of small signed or unsigned integers or flag sets, at some
- >> computational expense.
-
- >Or, for example, implementing standard communications protocols used frequently
- >in embedded systems, such as MIL-STD-1553.
-
- But then that's not "portable" - he did say "portably". Most things like that
- can't be done portably anyway, so are not at issue.
-
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