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-- --
-- GNAT RUN-TIME LIBRARY COMPONENTS --
-- --
-- S Y S T E M . C O M P A R E _ A R R A Y _ S I G N E D _ 8 --
-- --
-- S p e c --
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-- Copyright (C) 2002-2014, Free Software Foundation, Inc. --
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-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
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-- --
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-- This package contains functions for runtime comparisons on arrays whose
-- elements are 8-bit discrete type values to be treated as signed.
package System.Compare_Array_Signed_8 is
-- Note: although the functions in this package are in a sense Pure, the
-- package cannot be declared as Pure, since the arguments are addresses,
-- not the data, and the result is not pure wrt the address values.
function Compare_Array_S8
(Left : System.Address;
Right : System.Address;
Left_Len : Natural;
Right_Len : Natural) return Integer;
-- Compare the array starting at address Left of length Left_Len
-- with the array starting at address Right of length Right_Len.
-- The comparison is in the normal Ada semantic sense of array
-- comparison. The result is -1,0,+1 for Left<Right, Left=Right,
-- Left>Right respectively. This function works with 4 byte words
-- if the operands are aligned on 4-byte boundaries and long enough.
function Compare_Array_S8_Unaligned
(Left : System.Address;
Right : System.Address;
Left_Len : Natural;
Right_Len : Natural) return Integer;
-- Same functionality as Compare_Array_S8 but always proceeds by
-- bytes. Used when the caller knows that the operands are unaligned,
-- or short enough that it makes no sense to go by words.
end System.Compare_Array_Signed_8;