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Subject: Re: What is the best method for transmitting objects/tagged records?
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Right, but you don't need to use Ada.Tags (or anything tags) in order
> to stream tagged types. Just use the provided T'Class'Input and
> T'Class'Output attributes. For those to have portable results, you
> need to specify your external tag values for your tagged types (we
> previously discussed that).

Not sure what you mean by 'portable' here, Randy; are compilers required
to conform to standard representations on the wire? Because GNAT
certainly doesn't out of the box (for example, it uses native byte
order).