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Subject: Re: AI12-0218:  What is the portable representation clause for
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"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> writes:
> http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/aarm12_w_tc1/AA-Final.pdf
> §13.5.1 Record Representation Clauses, page 571

Thanks, I've downloaded that manual though my likelihood of actually
reading it (1332 pages!) isn't great.  The section on representation
clauses is very verbose and I'd have to check it microscopically to make
sure, but I do get the impression that it's intended to specify actual
memory layout.  That is a poor way to handle network byte order for the
reasons I gave.