Re: Reading Float Data from a binary file into ada

[Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>]

Niklas Holsti escreveu:
[snipped]

> 
> The portability of this approach is the same as for the C code: it 
> depends on the byte order in the VB file, the order in which you 
> concatenate the 4 octets into a 32-bit value, and the representation of 
> Float values. But if it works in C, it should work in Ada, assuming that 
> the Ada Float type has the same representation as the C float type, 
> which is likely.
> 

0.01999: since there are not VB implementations on machines other than 
Intel, I think once the 'right' endianness is found it will survive all 
implementations in Ada, right?