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From: Gerd <GerdM.O@t-online.de>
Subject: Does Ada support endiannes?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:57:32 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-12-12T00:57:32-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23835087-313f-427c-b37e-4ff1bdef9d57@r6g2000yqr.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hello,

a while ago, I worked at Siemens company, with a (CHILL-)compiler that
supports endianess similar to this:

litte : Integer; pragma Datalayout(Little_Endian);
big  : Integer; pragma Dtalayout(Big_Endian);

little := big; -- compiler generates code for converting big endian to
little endian

if little = big -- compiler converts the variables to machines nativ
format before testing


Is there something similar available with Ada? Or has someone any
suggestions how to rewrite it in ada?

Regards,
Gerd



             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12  8:57 Gerd [this message]
2011-12-12  9:23 ` Does Ada support endiannes? Niklas Holsti
2011-12-12 11:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-12 12:44   ` Gerd
2011-12-12 19:23     ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-12-13 14:25       ` Gerd
2011-12-13 14:19     ` Gautier write-only
2011-12-14 16:16       ` Gerd
2011-12-14 18:16         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-14 20:16         ` Gautier write-only
2011-12-15 11:27           ` Gerd
2011-12-15 13:01             ` Simon Wright
2011-12-15 13:37             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-15 20:12             ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-12-12 12:46   ` Gerd
2011-12-12 13:22     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-12 17:07       ` Charles H. Sampson
2011-12-12 18:33         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-14  5:19           ` Charles H. Sampson
2011-12-14  8:56             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-14  9:46               ` Simon Wright
2011-12-15  9:14               ` Charles H. Sampson
2011-12-15  9:46                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-25 21:42                   ` Charles H. Sampson
2011-12-26 10:47                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-27 10:38                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-27 12:35                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-04  4:33                       ` Charles H. Sampson
2012-01-04 11:56                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-12 13:33     ` Robert A Duff
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