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Subject: Re: Little Endian -> Big Endian (Ada95 / GNAT),
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> ... Also, there is a small performance penalty paid for
> shuffling bits around to achieve platform independence.

But surely less than converting to an ASCII image and back. (I suspect th=
at,=20
contrary to what has been indicated, the significant performance loss in =
the=20
ASCII solution is of time, not space.)

But the ASCII solution is a nice, safe one if you don't have the time or =
the=20
will or the possibility to learn to use or just to use the compiler's.=20
Remember Ada has the wonderful 'Image and 'Value attributes which take ca=
re=20
of the conversion for you.