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From: " "@deneb.cygnus.argh.org (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/11/30
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"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:

>       if System.Default_Bit_Order = System.Low_Order_First then
>          Swap (The_Bytes);
>       end if;

Does this really work?  I thought that System.Default_Bit_Order
hasn't got to do anything with octet ordering issues (aka endianess).
After all, there are more than just two methods of combining four octets
to a 32 bit integer (for example).