From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,36c197595b07e443 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!nospam From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cross-platform issues Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:13:53 -0500 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lwsofkW9eVspiL6kDh9uEa8kAJo= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8324 Date: 2009-12-06T12:13:53-05:00 List-Id: In article , Leslie 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: Another approach is to avoid such problems altogether by using Ada Web Server (AWS) and defining all communication atop HTTP: -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com