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From: "Brian.Gaffney@myrealbox.com" <Brian.Gaffney@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Avoiding warnings
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> See http://www.ada-auth.org/ai-files/grab_bag/bitorder.pdf for the
> _right_ way to do it. Unfortunately, GNAT does not implement this. If
> you care about that, send them an email asking them to implement
> AI95-00133. If they get enough such emails, they will eventually
> implement it :).

Or you could ask them to implement Ada'0y, since this proposal looks
like the basis for the draft RM.  The GNAT RM justification for the
current implementation uses text from the Ada'95 RM, which is changed
in the '0y.

(I need to look into this more, but I think this would solve a problem
we are having trying to unit test on an opposite-endian host.)

          --Bg
          --Chip away the stone, Sissaphis, chip away the stone.
          --Make the burden lighter if you must roll that rock alone.