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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,982f13b809cc2afa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Need GNAT Help !!!!! Date: 1998/08/18 Message-ID: <6rc3fh$656$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 382233318 References: <6ra6bc$8mv$1@hirame.wwa.com> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Aug 18 14:35:28 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; Gateway2000) Date: 1998-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6ra6bc$8mv$1@hirame.wwa.com>, samw@wwa.com (Samuel G. Williams) wrote: > I have been helping a software engineer in another area of out company draft an ADA solution for > an extremely complex problem. Recently we have run into a problem on the processor we have > targeted for the application. Our suspicions are that we may have a type incompatability between > the Sun we are developing on and the x186 that we have targeted. Hmmm. Remember that these two platforms have a different byte-ordering too (assuming you are using a SPARC-based Sun). > Does anyone know how to change a type size under GNAT? We have looked at all the files that come No need to muck with the compiler internals. You can define your own versions of all the base types that have the sizes you desire. That is, in fact, what you *should* be doing if you want your objects to be the same size on multiple platforms. That won't of course solve your 'endian problem... T.E.D. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum