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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-05@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Using GNAT.Sockets with Streams and Byte Swapping
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:38:29 +0000
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> Mark is not using an Ada 95 compiler, it seems.  It used to be more
> difficult because the size of the base type determined the number of
> stream elements used, and the representation clause doesn't change it.

Read again. He _changed_ the size of the base type. (Universal_Integer
doesn't have a fixed size, does it?)


Vinzent.

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