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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: pragma Pack does not work on GNAT 5.01a for Redhat Linux.
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com> writes:

> My point was simply that XDR has been a de facto standard available
> to C programmers for a very long time.

As I said, if the C programmers concerned have decided not to use XDR
(perhaps they never heard of it? perhaps it's not available from their
RTOS supplier? perhaps they think the system is homogeneous, so why
bother?) then having an XDR library on the Ada side won't help.

I believe that AdaCore's XDR version of their System.Stream_Attributes
uses real XDR representations, anyway, so that part's easy!