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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bb163c965c676b88 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.213.103 with SMTP id nr7mr3029129pbc.7.1354666358195; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.185.167 with SMTP id fd7mr85554igc.11.1354666358122; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:12:38 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni26043pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kt20no6084836pbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:12:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=149.32.224.33; posting-account=Qh2kiQoAAADpCLlhT_KTYoGO8dU3n4I6 NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.32.224.33 References: <85e4a577-9219-4fbe-a2a1-1c1f1459792f@googlegroups.com> <758371db-86aa-41c0-8242-de10f1f2df43@googlegroups.com> <85wqygb299.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <38525356-259e-465f-b5c7-bd97ededfca9@googlegroups.com> <810dfb9d-28ca-45ab-8adc-6909a49acfbe@googlegroups.com> <8c726f83-c972-4435-8f48-88ae57cfa8cb@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Endianness and Record Specification From: Anh Vo Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:12:38 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-12-04T16:12:37-08:00 List-Id: < On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 3:31:51 PM UTC-8, Randy Brukardt wrote: Then propose it for the next version of Ada (whenever that will be). Send a= =20 message to ada-comment explaining why you find the feature "extremely=20 useful". If no one asks, the odds that it will be included are quite=20 small... > Sound like it has been proposed before but it was rejected. Frankly, I have= never submitted any change proposal before. Thus, it may be a big task for= me. However, I am willing to send in the change proposal for the next Ada = revision if needed. This reminds me the time when I first study Ada in earnest. After the first= look at System.Bit_Order type from reading Mil-Std 1815-A, I thought it wa= s used to handle Endian feature. But it did turn out the way I thought. Now= more than 20 years later, GNAT-7.1 could be the first compiler to implemen= t it. A. Vo