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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AI12-0218: What is the portable representation clause for processing IETF packets on little-endian machines? Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 16:01:02 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <5f1e44fa-5b78-45a1-a12e-b8089d823540@googlegroups.com> <9ae54be5-0b96-4675-ad95-7a61ecc6fbd0@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: h2725194.stratoserver.net; posting-host="ce67fdd04031a3ccb5975a669dc34b00"; logging-data="27149"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mVFLriTxqy3MRrhEO4J0wqGN1QapBrh8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tP4WKGb4KqymXE3R1YQVUaC0roU= sha1:T5FO2IsUu+V/4300QTf1oRMgJHk= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52782 Date: 2018-05-30T16:01:02+01:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > But why is it C-style? Differently to C, Ada has a well defined > semantics of all operations, shifts included I guess I meant, the style found in Unix network programming texts. Which typically show examples in C.