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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-24 08:11:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40129921.1010208@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor References: <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <400FD4F7.8050805@noplace.com> <4011CF46.3040001@noplace.com> <10140vm4dkkr9b3@corp.supernews.com> <401272E3.4040506@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:11:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.25.157 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1074960676 209.165.25.157 (Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:11:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:11:16 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4779 Date: 2004-01-24T16:11:16+00:00 List-Id: Possible. But endianness is *not* the only reason for the existence of rep clauses. So while you *might* write portable endianness code, you can't figure that's the answer to everything. Somewhere a rep clause is going to work for one target and you'll need a different rep clause for a different target. Until all compilers and environments are exactly alike, you'll have some kind of problem like this. MDC Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > Somebody wrote an article (for Ada Letters I think) on how to write > representation specifications that are legal (and identical!) for > bigendian and little endian hardware. Anyone remember it? I tend now > to target only x86 family machines, where MMX, 3dNow!, SSE, and SSE2 > give me enough headaches. ;-) > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================