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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,878f0988ded38f50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: Passing Time via RCI Date: 1998/02/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 321397076 References: <34D5D42A.35C7@lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Pgp-Signed: Id=0x31798069; Comment="Processed by Emacs TinyPgp.el 2.12"; Version=2.6.3ia; Charset=noconv; Signature= "iQCVAwUBNNX5h4FdzKExeYBpAQEiOAQAtol/fe7u6txLukg2v/FEyLvgI9RSJPE5" "N/jvO3Yh0yCFeR0tSlG6Njk4FkdODTg4/FBzzafPv3YoEywj2BqoEOp4X6YBnh43" "WSXJQ8vUffHMGf906JTSPavbwOKmgZASNuJ7pFV+QY2dYyoOFZaKcfB/d5V/t09S" "Wvwe+0gozIY=" "=AmF+" Organization: TELECOM Paris Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Marc" == Marc A Criley writes: Marc> Do I have to define my own time type? And write my own time Marc> utilities? Or do an Unchecked_Conversion from Time to some byte Marc> array I define, pass it, then convert it back? That's a bad idea to do an unchecked conversion to an array of bytes, since it won't work in heterogeneous environments (bytes won't get swapped in the case of an array, while they should if they represent a time). You should probably define your own time type. Marc> This seems, uh, silly. What am I missing? You don't transmit pointers accross partitions, because a pointer has no meaning in a different address space. You should consider that the same thing happens with absolute times (distributed time is a well-known concept). You can still transmit durations though. Sam - - -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org