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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea4b92bb88a43e50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-23 15:34:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B351970.F1C40560@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada records and byte order References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:34:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.146.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 993335680 158.252.146.230 (Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:34:40 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:34:40 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:32:31 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9065 Date: 2001-06-23T22:34:40+00:00 List-Id: "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