From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/02
Date: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <825v9j$9cg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bt8a2uvr.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
In article <87bt8a2uvr.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
" "@deneb.cygnus.argh.org (Florian Weimer) wrote:
> Perhaps I may ask again: Is it reasonable to assume that
> Storage_Element'Size equals 8 (although the standard doesn't
> require this, of course)? And, looking at David's code, does
> System.Default_Bit_Order really reflect the byte-ordering?
System.Default_Bit_Order has nothing whatsoever to do with
byte ordering, and changing it does not affect byte ordering.
This is a common misconception. Of course usually bit order
and byte order should be the same or you get into trouble
(this means incidentally that if you change it from the
default, you are definitely likely to get into trouble :-)
As to whether it is reasonable to assume 8, obviously this is
not true of all machines, e.g. I assume it is 32 on the SHARC,
and it is 24 on the original Intermetrics validation.
But for most normal machines it will be 8.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-28 0:00 Decoding an octet stream Florian Weimer
1999-11-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream) Ted Dennison
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-03 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Numeric types Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
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