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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Gnat Ada binary compatibility (between Alpha operating systems)
Date: 11 Dec 2002 15:51:27 -0600
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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.