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From: nassera@net.com
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/11
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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