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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c06e1e4fc2bf2d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:44:07 -0400 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Controlling endian-ness? References: <4897b7f5$0$19705$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <4898d0ca$0$19680$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <66265b13-8e35-4bc7-8e9f-7c4d76adb5b7@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <66265b13-8e35-4bc7-8e9f-7c4d76adb5b7@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4899aaa6$0$19662$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: fda03f3b.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=j\]\A?_hgN^jT:G\be_IU]K6_LM2JZB_S77Zo;JGFTh_3?@`i3kGa5[YC[>h3fUYATb Adam Beneschan wrote: > type My_Unsigned_32 is new Unsigned_32; > procedure My_Write > (Stream : not null access Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type'Class; > Item : in My_Unsigned_32); > for My_Unsigned_32'Write use My_Write; You're right that works. I actually thought I tried using a derived type before, but evidently I didn't do it right. Anyway thanks for the suggestion. Peter