From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Endianness and Record Specification
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:00:18 -0700
Date: 2012-12-04T19:00:18-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k9m9rj$7gm$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aba4eee4-97df-4b24-a268-a46c3cb778f1@googlegroups.com>
On 12/04/2012 05:12 PM, Anh Vo wrote:
>
> This reminds me the time when I first study Ada in earnest. After the first
> look at System.Bit_Order type from reading Mil-Std 1815-A, I thought it was
> used to handle Endian feature. But it did turn out the way I thought. Now
> more than 20 years later, GNAT-7.1 could be the first compiler to implement
> it.
System.Bit_Order isn't defined in ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A (ARM 83). It first shows up
in Ada 95.
--
Jeff Carter
"The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."
Blazing Saddles
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2012-09-21 18:16 Endianness and Record Specification awdorrin
2012-09-21 19:21 ` awdorrin
2012-09-22 3:07 ` Stephen Leake
2012-09-21 22:18 ` Simon Wright
2012-09-22 7:43 ` Quentin Ochem
2012-10-23 21:08 ` awdorrin
2012-10-24 10:20 ` Stephen Leake
2012-11-02 13:13 ` awdorrin
2012-12-04 17:17 ` Anh Vo
2012-12-04 17:37 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-12-04 18:31 ` Anh Vo
2012-12-04 23:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-12-05 0:12 ` Anh Vo
2012-12-05 2:00 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2012-12-05 3:40 ` Anh Vo
2012-09-22 9:32 ` Robin Vowels
2012-09-22 9:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-09-24 2:44 ` Robin Vowels
2012-09-24 7:48 ` Simon Wright
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