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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Data portability with streams
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:<KqRc7.5104$NJ6.23394@www.newsranger.com>...
> I think one possible way to do this without causing a ton of work 
> would be to create a "translation generic" for each target (ASN.1 or 
> XDR) type. Hmmm. That might be worth experimenting with one day...

In GNAT, this is most easily achieved by providing your own version
of System.Stream_Attributes. We supply two, one corresponding to normal
memory layout, and one corresponding to XDR.