From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Gnat Ada binary compatibility (between Alpha operating systems)
Date: 11 Dec 2002 15:51:27 -0600
Date: 2002-12-11T15:51:27-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jynugbkF4o42@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3df79d5a$1@news.swissonline.ch
In article <3df79d5a$1@news.swissonline.ch>, "Scorpion" <erber@yahoo.de> writes:
> we use Dec Ada in a homogenous VMS AXP environment. Now, we want to migrate
> to Gnat Ada95 first and then to Gnat Ada on Tru64 Unix (both alpha hardware
> and little endian). We are using an RPC mechanism, which tranfers binary
> data, represented by complex Ada variant records. Is there a chance, that we
> can continue doing this between OpenVMS AXP and Tru64 AXP? Or do we have to
> introduce data mashalling in any case.
If you have floating point in your data, consider what floating point
types you require. VMS supports certain types only because of VAX
heritage -- the Ada compilers on VMS may do the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 20:17 Gnat Ada binary compatibility Scorpion
2002-12-11 21:51 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2002-12-12 8:56 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-12-12 13:13 ` Jakob Erber
2002-12-12 14:13 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-12-13 11:34 ` Simon Wright
2002-12-12 12:22 ` Jean-Claude Mahieux
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