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Dimitry and Niklas, thanks for your responses.

The Introspection/Stream approach is interesting, but I think it would result in a more complicated situation than I already have.

I completely agree that this code was implemented in the wrong way. Unfortunately, while I am tasked with 'fixing' the endian issues, I'm not being provided with enough time to rewrite the entire routine.

I have looked into the Scalar_Storage_Order feature that has been introduced, but I have not been able to investigate the latest compilers for my system yet. I probably should just download the source for the latest GCC/GNAT and see what happens. ;)

Thanks!