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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/09
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Dale Pontius wrote:
> 
> In article <dewar.828991983@schonberg>,
>         dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> >
> >target independent representation such as XDR. A future version of GNAT
> >
> What is XDR?

According to FOLDOC ( http://wfn-shop.Princeton.EDU/foldoc/ ), it is-

    eXternal Data Representation

(XDR) A standard for machine independent data structures developed by
Sun Microsystems for use in remote procedure call systems. It is defined
in RFC 1014 and is similar to ASN.1. 


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