Re: Ada95/Mil-Std-1553 Problem (Long Post - Sorry About That)

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

    Several of you have been very kind in sending me suggestions about
    how to handle my Mil-Std-1553 problems. I think the information is
    beginning to gel into a potential solution. I have one question
    which maybe some of the language lawyers can help me out with:

    Is there a way with tagged records to control the position/content
    of any and all tag data? (In a manner that is reasonably close to
    portable so that it's not dependent on, for example,
    implementation X uses a 16 bit integer for a tag vs implementation
    Y uses a 32 bit integer...) In other words, if I can guarantee that
    the tag data will occur at the end (or beginning?) of the record
    and/or that it will occupy exactly N bytes, I think I can figure out
    how to solve my send/receive problems. It would be better if I
    could control the *value* of the tag, but I'll settle for knowing
    where it is so I can strip it off.

    Any info on how that might be done? Thanks.

    MDC

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer    ATT:        561.796.8997
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