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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Converting application from BIG ENDIAN to LITTLE ENDIAN machine
Date: 23 Apr 2004 20:59:20 +0200
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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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