From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Representation clauses and streams
Date: 2000/01/04
Date: 2000-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84tbvi$dm1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k8lq2t4z.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
In article <87k8lq2t4z.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> wrote:
> Since everybody seems to have strong feelings about this
issue, I'm
> going to ask only one question: Why is IA 13.13.2(17)
considered
> so important? Even if compilers converge on this specific
issue, this
> won't give us portable data streams. It might make the stream
layout of
> similar targets (that is, architecture and compiler
combinations) a bit
> more similar, but then it doesn't cover the little/big endian
problem.
> And it doesn't seem to be very helpful when you have to match
a given
> data format.
Your barking up the wrong tree here. This IA is not at all
intended to deal with these issues, and indeed it is a good
idea if compilers DO address these issues, and they are
free to (e.g. the XDR implementation in GNAT).
The point is to get reasonably expected behavior for simple
binary I/O on a single target (e.g. I stream out a char, I
want 8 bits, I stream out an int, I want 32 bits).
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-29 0:00 Representation clauses and streams Florian Weimer
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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