Re: Need GNAT Help !!!!!

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <6ri2b6$g9o$1@hirame.wwa.com>,
  samw@wwa.com (Samuel G. Williams) wrote:
> What we are attempting to do now because of the way in which the code was
> written is leave integer as a universal value and change the actual size
> of the integer within the gnat environment. I know this sounds hokie, but

It sounds like a recipe for disaster. Please reconsider. Even if you go ahead
and try it, I suspect you will eventually realize it would be far easier to
just fix your source code. I'm just trying to save you some time up front.

> You also mentioned something about the byte ordering differences betwwen
> sparc and 80186. do you know of any reference documentation that
> illustrates this.

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by reference documentation. I have attached
the URLs of the FOLDOC entires for big-endian:
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?big-endian and little-endian:
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?little-endian and NUXI problem:
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?NUXI+problem

Note from the above that the SPARC chip is big-endian, and the x86 intel
processors are little-endian. The PowerPC is "bytesexual", but I believe most
OS's make it big-endian.

This is generally only an issue when binary data has to be transferred from
one platform to the other. If you are just converting source code, you
probably won't have a problem.

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T.E.D.

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