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From: dahaverk@cca.rockwell.com (Dave Haverkamp)
Subject: Re: GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem
Date: 1996/02/20
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In article <tgmDMwoGx.B04@netcom.com>, tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes:
|> William Paul Berriss (strberis) wrote:
|> : When reading in the peppers.ras file it gets the nymbers form the header BUT
|> : instead of 512 it shows (on the screen) 131072, and instead of 24 it shows 
|> : something huge like 6291456.  All these 'wrong' numbers can be made from
|> : other numbers, e.g. 131072 is 256 times 512.  It should have been 512!
|> 
|> I suspect that this is partly an endian problem. Sun is big endian and
|> DOS is little endian.
|> 

For ada95 look at the "Bit_Order" attribute.

     for T'Bit_Order use Highest_Bit_First;

     or

     for T'Bit_Order use Lowest_Bit_First;


I'm not sure this will help in your application.  But you definitely
need to flip the bits around.

-- 
David Haverkamp 
dahaverk@cca.rockwell.com
-- 
David Haverkamp 
dahaverk@cca.rockwell.com