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From: Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Subject: Re: PRECOMPILATION
Date: 1999/02/10
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Tom Moran wrote:
>   Could you give an example?  If the data is to be passed between
> architectures I would think there is a single "public" form, which
> would always be the same and thus could always be described by the
> same representation clause (even if for some compilers that rep clause
> happened to merely confirm what that particular compiler does anyway).
The data has to be passed, within one architecture, from Ada to C and
vice versa,
through files, tcp/ip "messages", calls to libraries.
The code (Ada and C) has to run on several architectures, it provides,
by instance,
interface to UNIX calls.
As an example, just consider that a file size, of type "long" in C, can
be
implemented on 32 or 64 bits, depending on the operating system.

Clear?
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Pascal MALAISE
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