Re: How can I avoid Using a Semaphore?

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <CbKa6.294821$U46.9394163@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>,
  "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com> wrote:
> For example, within one application I may want to stream
> information to a network in big endian format and stream
> information to files in little endian format.  From what I
> understand (I may certainly be wrong) I cannot do this in
> Ada.  If I want this functionality I must resort to C++.

Sure you can do this in Ada, just define two types (use
derived types if you want to be able to convert between them)
and specify different stream routines for the two types (or
sets of types).

To what feature are you referring in C++ here that will help
you solve this feature. I am unaware of any feature in standard
C++ that would provide any automatic solution, but I certainly
don't know all of C++ :-)


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