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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte order writing to socket stream
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: May 18, 2002 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: Byte order writing to socket stream


<snip>
> 
> I don't know whether ACT make any guarantees about the stability of
> the wire format used by their Annex E support between releases; to be
> safe you might want to use the same release both ends.
>
GNAT implements the XDR spec, so it should be the same between releases.
 
> You'd be most unlikely to get interoperability with other Ada
> compilers (even if you could find one with Annex A support).
>
They all are required to have Annex A support.  Did you mean Annex E?