From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Converting application from BIG ENDIAN to LITTLE ENDIAN machine
Date: 23 Apr 2004 20:59:20 +0200
Date: 2004-04-23T20:59:20+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <plllkma5br.fsf@sparre.crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89219f7f.0404230750.12f64b28@posting.google.com
Claude Riendeau wrote:
> I'm new to ADA and this is probably a classical.
Writing Ada "Ada" and not "ADA" would have concealed this a bit. :-)
> I have to have this large application that was programmed for a BIG
> ENDIAN machine to run on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine. I need to reorder
> all the records BIT definitions (at 0 range 3 .. 12), and I have
> 10000+ lines of code to convert. I'd like to automate this.
Have you considered simply to use "Bit_Order" to handle this? Take a
look at chapter 13 in the Ada Reference Manual for a formal
description of how it works.
Jacob
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2004-04-23 15:50 Converting application from BIG ENDIAN to LITTLE ENDIAN machine Claude Riendeau
2004-04-23 17:16 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-04-23 18:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2004-04-23 21:42 ` Stephen Leake
2004-04-23 21:49 ` Stephen Leake
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