From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/08
Date: 1996-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DpKB2C.Fyv@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4kamb9$om2@flute.aix.calpoly.edu
In article <4kamb9$om2@flute.aix.calpoly.edu>,
Michael Anthony Porcelli <mporcell@flute.aix.calpoly.edu> wrote:
>...One of the main problems that my
>professor likes to point out the endian problem and the fact that so much
>software is *not* endian-independant (due mainly to the widespread use of C
>and C++). However, he is not familiar enough with Ada (nor am I) to know if
>Ada is endian-independant.
What, exactly, do you mean by "endian-independent" code? There's a big
difference between (1) you can compile a fairly self-contained program
on both sorts of machines, and it will work, versus (2) the program is
distributed across a heterogeneous network, and wants to pass
endian-independent data from one part to another.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-08 0:00 Endian and Ada Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Joseph Wisniewski
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Kelly Grant
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-14 0:00 ` LJMetzger
1996-04-17 0:00 ` phil
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1996-04-18 0:00 Bob Crispen
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