Re: Cross-platform issues

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <hfeive$315$1@news.albasani.net>,
 Leslie <jlturriff@centurytel.net> wrote:

> I'm working on an application that I would like to be capable of 
> communicating between hosts, and I wonder how the issue of 32-bit vs. 
> 64-bit, and perhaps endianness should best be handled?

I'm guessing that would depend on how much and what kind of data, as 
well as a given compiler's support for representation. Here's an 
example of one vendor's documentation of this:

<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.4/gnat_rm/Representation-Clauses-a
nd-Pragmas.html#Representation-Clauses-and-Pragmas>

Another approach is to avoid such problems altogether by using Ada Web 
Server (AWS) and defining all communication atop HTTP:

<http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/aws/>

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