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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada support endiannes?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:27:09 +0100
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:57:32 -0800 (PST), Gerd wrote:

> a while ago, I worked at Siemens company, with a (CHILL-)compiler that
> supports endianess similar to this:
> 
> litte : Integer; pragma Datalayout(Little_Endian);
> big  : Integer; pragma Dtalayout(Big_Endian);
> 
> little := big; -- compiler generates code for converting big endian to
> little endian
> 
> if little = big -- compiler converts the variables to machines nativ
> format before testing
> 
> 
> Is there something similar available with Ada? Or has someone any
> suggestions how to rewrite it in ada?

You simply convert all inputs when reading them and keep everything in the
native format.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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