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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6256eb970798bf8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: Rep Specs,endian,ncohen Date: 1996/10/11 Message-ID: <325E46D9.5F19@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188730967 references: <3259589E.1740@smtp.svl.trw.com> <325A510D.14E1@gsfc.nasa.gov> <53g3ag$1otk@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <325D1DFD.3DE1@watson.ibm.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Norman H. Cohen wrote: > > Peter Hermann wrote: > > > I remember Norman H. Cohen has written an essay about the endian > > /portability problem somewhere in AdaLetters(?). > > "Endian-Independent Record Representation Clauses", Ada Letters XIV, No. > 1 (January/February 1994), pp. 27-29 > > Stephen Leake's solution appears to be an instance of the approach > suggested in the article. The article gives the general recipe for > constructing the component clauses. Yes, it is, and I apologize for not giving proper credit. I couldn't remember where I had learned the technique! -- - Stephe