From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,60c0f30dbde782f6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.72.199 with SMTP id n7mr47216467qaj.5.1357915494561; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:44:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.75.195 with SMTP id e3mr13964496qew.24.1357915494496; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:44:54 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni1qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no1005392qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:44:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.223.230.200; posting-account=mjE6MAoAAADjsB3NIuKgfHO4u-Elh3cb NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.223.230.200 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <09058913-7e01-4630-8c58-0728eb83eb11@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Record Elements and Endian Conversion From: Marc C Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:44:54 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-01-11T06:44:54-08:00 List-Id: On Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:31:25 AM UTC-6, awdorrin wrote: > I am migrating legacy code written for the PowerPC platform to X86, and h= ave been running into Endian issues throughout the code. AdaCore recently announced that "GNAT Pro Solves Data Endianness Portabilit= y Challenge" (http://www.adacore.com/press/endianness-portability-challenge= ), though they don't provide any detail about the specific approach, simply= referring to it as "a natural extension to the existing Ada data represent= ation model". So, it should be available to those who are GNATPro customers, and given th= e lead time I'm pretty optimistic it would be available in GNAT GPL 2013 (w= hich is typically released mid-year). Marc A. Criley