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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/12
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In article <dewar.855629889@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> <<You may also run into big endian/little endian problems. If performance
> is not a problem, passing the data in text representation will always
> work and be portable.>>
> 
> Another possibility is to use a target independent implementation of
> Stream_IO, such as is provided with GLADE (the GNAT implementation of

Or an ORB, which handles this stuff (among other various similar sorts
of things) as well.  And works between pieces written in C, Ada, C++,
and ST (and Java, though that is not yet official...)

/Jon

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