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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/10
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Date: 1997-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
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Mats said

<<You may also run into big endian/little endian problems. If performance
is not a problem, passing the data in text representation will always
work and be portable.>>

Another possibility is to use a target independent implementation of
Stream_IO, such as is provided with GLADE (the GNAT implementation of
the distributed annex PCS). GLADE uses XDR for stream representation,
which avoids any endian (or other target dependent) problems.