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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
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markp wrote:
> Does Ada provide any built-in byte swapping routines such as ntohl,
> htons, etc.?

No. It's a simple operation. You should be able to easily write a 
generic that would swap the bytes in anything, if you really need to do 
this a lot.

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Jeff Carter
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