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: 103376,40c8d1d2d927ffd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-20 02:54:04 PST From: Michael Paus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:54:02 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <9fb7e8e1.0402190429.49b37b16@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p508a8854.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1077274443 4124 80.138.136.84 (20 Feb 2004 10:54:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.8.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5686 Date: 2004-02-20T11:54:02+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > Michael Paus writes: > > >>Bibb Latting wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, I am working on a distributed application where the processors >>>have differing storage unit sizes and/or endianess. My problem is how >>>to handle the specification of memory contents and the delivery of >>>data to applications with minimal variation between implementations. >>>I'd like to know what solutions have worked well for others. >> >>And I'd like to know which currently used processors have a storage >>unit size other than 8. > > > Many DSPs use 16 bit words. Interesting! I haven't worked with DSPs for a very long time. Could you tell me how they map, e.g. a character. Does it always have 16 bits or don't they have the type character at all anymore? Michael