From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem
Date: 1996/02/20
Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4gdivm$10f5@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dn33HL.ICr@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com
In article <Dn33HL.ICr@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>, dahaverk@cca.rockwell.com
(Dave Haverkamp) writes:
|> For ada95 look at the "Bit_Order" attribute.
|>
|> for T'Bit_Order use Highest_Bit_First;
|>
|> or
|>
|> for T'Bit_Order use Lowest_Bit_First;
|>
|>
|> I'm not sure this will help in your application. But you definitely
|> need to flip the bits around.
No, the purpose of the 'Bit_Order attribute is not to perform
big-endian/little-endian data conversion at run-time, but to assert that
bit numbers in record-representation clauses should be interpreted at
compile time according to either big-endian or little-endian conventions.
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1996-02-20 0:00 ` GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem Dave Haverkamp
1996-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-24 0:00 ` Tore Joergensen
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