Re: Distributed system portability

[tmoran@acm.org]

>>> Or is the idea of streams that one should never try to access them
>>> from a non-Ada language ?
>
>I'd say its a bit worse than that.  You really shouldn't try to access
>them from code that wasn't compiled with the same Ada compiler (unless you
>are *real* careful).  Even the same compiler on different platforms could
>give different results.
  That's true unless only if (you use default 'read etc) or (the size
of Stream_Element is different).  The former is easily made false and
the latter is rather unlikely to be true, and certainly should not
come as a surprise if you are working with such differing machines.