From: Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>
Subject: Re: Last stream problem: byte order
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:37:49 +0100
Date: 2002-03-27T16:37:49+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1017243242.6790.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CA04CA6.338B37D7@ib-paus.com>
tisdagen den 26 mars 2002 11.25 skrev du:
> If you also check the byte order of your system at runtime (there is a
> system constant in Ada which you can check) you can even achieve the effect
> that all stream data is always written in network byte order independent of
> the platform your program is running on.
Why runtime check? Compile time check seems more reasonable to me. Or can the
same compiled program really run on architectures with different endiannes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-27 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-25 19:45 Last stream problem: byte order Erik Sigra
2002-03-25 22:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-25 22:36 ` Stephen Leake
2002-03-26 4:32 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-03-26 10:25 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-03-26 17:53 ` Pascal Obry
2002-03-26 18:25 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-03-26 19:25 ` Pascal Obry
2002-03-27 15:37 ` Erik Sigra [this message]
2002-03-27 18:12 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-03-28 2:24 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-03-28 18:34 ` Stephen Leake
2002-03-28 18:38 ` Simon Wright
2002-03-29 2:08 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-03-29 6:52 ` Simon Wright
2002-03-29 7:06 ` Simon Wright
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