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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada enumerations
Date: 1997/12/12
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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