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3 -- GNAT RUN-TIME LIBRARY COMPONENTS --
5 -- S Y S T E M . C O M P A R E _ A R R A Y _ S I G N E D _ 6 4 --
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34 -- This package contains functions for runtime comparisons on arrays whose
35 -- elements are 64-bit discrete type values to be treated as signed.
37 package System
.Compare_Array_Signed_64
is
39 -- Note: although the functions in this package are in a sense Pure, the
40 -- package cannot be declared as Pure, since the arguments are addresses,
41 -- not the data, and the result is not pure wrt the address values.
43 function Compare_Array_S64
44 (Left
: System
.Address
;
45 Right
: System
.Address
;
47 Right_Len
: Natural) return Integer;
48 -- Compare the array starting at address Left of length Left_Len
49 -- with the array starting at address Right of length Right_Len.
50 -- The comparison is in the normal Ada semantic sense of array
51 -- comparison. The result is -1,0,+1 for Left<Right, Left=Right,
52 -- Left>Right respectively.
54 end System
.Compare_Array_Signed_64
;