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From: Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>
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Subject: Re: Last stream problem: byte order
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Date: 2002-03-27T16:37:49+01:00

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?