From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,958ed45cc4906b53 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 15:28:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Distributed system portability References: <6uk97.11952$ar1.37575@www.newsranger.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:28:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 996532081 24.7.82.199 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:28:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:28:01 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10790 Date: 2001-07-30T22:28:01+00:00 List-Id: >>> 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.