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AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> writes:

> that's why in Ada bits are counted also right to left so that we count
> contiguously past byte boundaries.

If you are on a BE machine and you are writing a representation clause
(Ada < 2012) then, for a byte, the msb is bit 0 and the lsb is bit 7.

I'm natively little-endian, and if I'm drawing a 4-byte memory quantity
on a single line I will draw the ls byte and the ls bit within it on the
right regardless of the intended endianness. I don't know for sure what
people whose first computer was big-endian do, but I suspect it's the
same (perhaps not for people whose writing system is right-to-left) (but
see the third comment in [1], showing that at least one respected
individual thinks differently!).

So I don't see how "in Ada bits are counted [also] right to left".

[1] http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-140-bridging-the-endianness-gap/