Re: GNAT Ada for DOS - Reading Integers Problem

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Bob Duff said, replying to Norm Cohen:

">    Low  at 0 range 0 .. 7;
>    High at 0 range 8 .. 15;
>
>from its parent's record representation clause, but to interpret that
>text big-endianly instead of little-endianly!

>(Fortunately, the Founding Fathers follow this newsgroup and can provide
>a definitive answer about their Original Intent.)

Well, *this* Founding Father can't.  I have to admit that I never
thought about this particular example.

However, I think that's what the RM says -- you inherit the record rep
clause, but you override the bit order.  That seems like the only
reasonable intepretation."

Robert replies

Well that's a surprise, I always read the RM this way, and assumed that
the whole point of Bit_Order was to provide this capability. Like Bob,
I certainly can't see any other way to read the RM :-)