From: nassera@net.com
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/11
Date: 1997-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5drd56$90i@lana.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.855629889@merv
In article <dewar.855629889@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu says...
>
>Mats said
>
><<You may also run into big endian/little endian problems. If performance
>is not a problem, passing the data in text representation will always
>work and be portable.>>
>
>Another possibility is to use a target independent implementation of
>Stream_IO, such as is provided with GLADE (the GNAT implementation of
>the distributed annex PCS). GLADE uses XDR for stream representation,
>which avoids any endian (or other target dependent) problems.
>
good choice. I just wanted to also add that Sun NFS and Sun RPC
also uses XDR.
man xdr: (on solaris 2.5)
DESCRIPTION
XDR routines allow C programmers to describe arbitrary data
structures in a machine-independent fashion. Data for
remote procedure calls (RPC) are transmitted using these
routines.
by the way, I wonder why the man output above mentions only "C programmers".
Nasser
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-07 0:00 fixed point types over an interface Allen Krell
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-11 0:00 ` nassera [this message]
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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