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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT 4.4.5 Record Bit_Order Endian issues
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:58:16 -0500
Date: 2013-01-18T04:58:16-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <851udi4xtz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 04cd2ea1-d96f-4b47-93a6-6713f056cbf7@googlegroups.com

awdorrin <awdorrin@gmail.com> writes:

> Quite frustrating! :)

Yes, it took me a while to really understand all of this

> What I'd give for some simple conditional compile directives like there are in C...

You know how those work, but don't yet know how the Ada way works. The
same was true of tasks and protected types when you started; would you
give those up now?

Give it time to sink in, and focus on the difference between bit and
byte endiannes..

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-18  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 17:43 GNAT 4.4.5 Record Bit_Order Endian issues awdorrin
2013-01-15  0:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-15  1:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-15 16:57 ` AdaMagica
2013-01-15 22:24 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-16 10:44   ` Simon Wright
2013-01-16 19:00     ` AdaMagica
2013-01-16 21:34       ` Simon Wright
2013-01-16 23:14     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-17  3:49     ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-17 15:32       ` awdorrin
2013-01-18  9:49         ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-18 13:04           ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-19  1:43             ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-19 12:48               ` AdaMagica
2013-01-22  0:14                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-17 17:28       ` Simon Wright
2013-01-18  9:56         ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-17 18:04 ` awdorrin
2013-01-17 19:50   ` awdorrin
2013-01-18  9:58     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2013-01-17 20:58   ` Simon Wright
2013-01-17 21:29     ` awdorrin
2013-01-17 22:16       ` awdorrin
2013-01-18  6:15         ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-18 15:28           ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-18  9:37         ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-18 12:24         ` awdorrin
2013-01-18 15:11           ` awdorrin
2013-01-19  1:48             ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-18 17:19           ` Simon Wright
2013-01-22  9:49           ` quinot
2013-01-28 13:39             ` quinot
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-22  3:21 Stephen Leake
2013-01-22  5:14 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-23  1:29   ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-22 22:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-23  1:38   ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-23 10:58     ` Simon Wright
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