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-Thread: 103376,e710f7d3f890e76b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!out03b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Base64-Encoding Date: 17 Oct 2007 13:15:06 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <20071015161229.3f439230@cube.tz.axivion.com> <1192633784.534337.221490@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1192644851 24808 192.135.80.34 (17 Oct 2007 18:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2473 Date: 2007-10-17T13:15:06-05:00 List-Id: In article <1192633784.534337.221490@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Adam Beneschan writes: > On Oct 17, 7:07 am, Stefan Bellon wrote: > >> Yes, I am not forced to exactly do it this way. In fact, there have >> been discussions in this group explaining how to do it in several other >> ways. I was just wondering because my idea initially looked like such an >> elegant way. ;-) > > It does seem like it would have been nice, and maybe it could be > argued that some sort of standard representation clause or pragma > should be added to give more control over how packed array elements > are stored. The problem is that it would have to work not only for > big- and little-endian machines, but also on machines that are not > byte-addressable---there are still a few of those around. The value of a standardized pragma to solve a problem that is specific to particular architectures is questionable. In fact, it might be a bad idea to have a standardized pragma since those porting to another architecture might presume that no changes were required.