From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Rep Specs
Date: 1996/10/13
Date: 1996-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845244400@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 325A510D.14E1@gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephen Lake said, responding to Doug Shipler's problem:
"I ran into a similar problem. The cause is that the Sparc is
little-bit-endian; it stores the least significant bit in the highest
numbered bit slot."
and then follows a very contorted work around!
No, that's not the cause. The quoted code is quite correct, and should
work on either a little endian or big-endian machine. If it does not
you have run into a compiler bug. Your suggestion might be reasonable
as a work around, but we should not leave the impression that this
work around is neccessary on a correctly functioning Ada compiler!
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-07 0:00 Rep Specs Doug Shipler
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Rep Specs,endian,ncohen Peter Hermann
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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1999-05-31 0:00 Rep specs Eddy Raineri
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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