From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,913ffb3586d7a026 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!jacob-sparre.dk!ada-dk.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is the best method for transmitting objects/tagged records? Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:57:17 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <47671647-1941-4bf2-ab34-578b4a853095@k16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1307653039 25379 69.95.181.76 (9 Jun 2011 20:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:57:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19723 Date: 2011-06-09T15:57:17-05:00 List-Id: I said: ... > Ada doesn't out of the box support any sort of hetrogeneous partitioning > (the assumption is that all of the processors are similar) and if your > implementation provides some it is doing so outside of Ada. (That is, if > you have partitions with different native byte orders communicating, you > are trying to do something Ada was not designed for.) Clarification: I'm talking about Annex E distributed system partitions here, and not just stream communication between the partitions, in line with the OP's original question. Randy.