RE: Endianness independance

[Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com]

| -----Message d'origine-----
| De: David C. Hoos [mailto:david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com]
...
| Yes, Glade does it, but the only thing Glade has to worry 
| about is that
| the stream representation is independent of hardware platform and OS.
| 
| Glade does this by providing a replacement body for the
| System.Stream_Attributes package.
| 
| However, I have done a lot of endianess-independent work where a
| specific network representation is required -- i.e., where an Ada
| program has to communicate with a program writen in a language
| not necessarily known to me.
| 
OK, but i don't pretend to get this general case taken into account within
the language scope, altrough some 
for My_Stream'representation use XDR; 
could be great! 

My point is just about interoperability between the same Ada code compiled
on two platform. I want both exe to put the same thing in the stream.
It's not the case even with a representation clause, and i feel this is
abnormal. 
I know it's far from easy to achieve, but i thought Norman's proposal was
helping a lot...

Lionel