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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dec0a6ed5b5044de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bill_1@nospam.com Subject: Re: Code portability question Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <78c4p3$4or@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435952634 References: <36A94B78.963F3215@wvu.edu> <36A9849C.A9FE01E4@rocketmail.com> Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://www.newsguy.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36A9849C.A9FE01E4@rocketmail.com>, Corey says... > > >It is possible to write Ada95 code that doesn't port easily to another machine. >A simple example would be code that relies on the byte order of the >machine to be big endian, and the machine to which you are porting is >little endian order. yes, but the problem was a compile time errors the poster complained about, not run-time problems. I agree with you, more info is needed to understand the problem was. Bill.