From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: adasockets and adatypes
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 21:35:06 GMT
Date: 2001-09-04T21:35:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eObl7.3848$4z.12891@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.999636185.20412.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
In article <mailman.999636185.20412.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, David C. Hoos
says...
>
>First of all, one doesn't redefine 'Output or 'Input -- just
>'Read and 'Write.
If you don't specify those attributes, then how do you specify how many bytes
are used to specify the length of a string written out using 'Output (and the
endian-ness of that value). A portable solution will need to do that.
I can actually agree with most of the rest of the message. The problem is that
it still doesn't change the fact that you *can't* do this portably in the
general case. Sure, you can restrict your portability to certain types,
compilers, or platform combos, and get it to work with a bit of elbow grease.
But in the *general* case, you can't do it.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-04 10:53 adasockets and adatypes Tony Gair
2001-09-04 11:37 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-09-04 12:17 ` Florian Weimer
2001-09-04 14:55 ` David C. Hoos
2001-09-04 15:33 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-04 15:53 ` David C. Hoos
2001-09-04 18:53 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-04 20:44 ` David C. Hoos
2001-09-04 21:35 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-09-04 15:58 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-05 9:13 ` Tony Gair
2001-09-04 12:02 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-09-04 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-04 22:12 ` Simon Wright
2001-09-06 7:04 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-07 13:16 ` Peter Dulimov
2001-09-07 14:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-08 5:51 ` Simon Wright
2001-09-06 14:16 ` Marin David Condic
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