From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada records and byte order
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:34:40 GMT
Date: 2001-06-23T22:34:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B351970.F1C40560@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.993324712.28525.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
"David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote:
>
> The problem is that on a little-endian machine, your 12-bit record component
> indicated by the bits bbbb bbbb bbbb are not contiguous in memory if read from
> the file stream by ordinary means.
Oops! I guess I've been spending too much time dealing with big-endian
machines. David is right, so disregard my previous post.
--
Jeff Carter
"Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2001-06-23 10:15 Ada records and byte order Karl Ran
2001-06-23 11:18 ` Carbonne Damien
2001-06-23 16:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-23 19:30 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-06-23 22:34 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2001-06-25 10:19 ` Karl Ran
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