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On May 31, 12:34=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> One potential problem with using Streams as an interface to sockets is th=
at
> there is nothing in the Ada standard that mandates Stream_Element to be a=
n
> octet of bits, as socket I/O demands.

Can't imagine what reason an implementer would have to make a stream
element anything other than an octet! (for any general-purpose
processor you'd actually be likely to come across).