From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada enumerations
Date: 1997/12/12
Date: 1997-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.881950729@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34912441.6CE2FE35@elca-matrix.ch
Mats said
<<But only when the sizes are different, right ? For instance, if I convert a
32-bit integer to a 32-bit packed record of 4 bytes, I will get MSB first on a
big endian machine and LSB first on a little endian machine ?
>>
I hate to answer yes or no to this question without specific code at hand.
Yes, there can most definitely be endian differences, but whether they
are an issue in a given case depends on the case.
Generalizations are unlikely to be helpful (we spend a lot of our time
looking at very specific cases during porting of code -- Mats, you are
a customer these days, if you have a very specific case that concerns
you, send it along :-)
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-10 0:00 Ada enumerations Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-12-10 0:00 ` John M. Mills
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1997-12-03 0:00 Ada Enumerations Jeffrey Harris
1997-12-03 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-11 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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