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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess
Date: 20 Feb 2004 03:56:08 -0500
Date: 2004-02-20T03:56:08-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.2.1077267380.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c14dmn$qd3$1@online.de>

Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com> writes:

> Bibb Latting wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I am working on a distributed application where the processors
> > have differing storage unit sizes and/or endianess.  My problem is how
> > to handle the specification of memory contents and the delivery of
> > data to applications with minimal variation between implementations.
> > I'd like to know what solutions have worked well for others.
> 
> And I'd like to know which currently used processors have a storage
> unit size other than 8.

Many DSPs use 16 bit words.

-- 
-- Stephe




  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-20  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-19 12:29 Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess Bibb Latting
2004-02-19 17:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-02-20 13:52   ` Martin Dowie
2004-02-20  7:41 ` Michael Paus
2004-02-20  8:56   ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-02-20 10:54     ` Michael Paus
2004-02-20 13:55       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-02-20 12:43   ` Petter Fryklund
2004-02-20 20:24     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-02-21  5:34 ` Steve
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