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: 103376,4ef4bf3098ab117 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.34!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Mark H Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada compiler differences References: <+Lb8wu$Il5Pz@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1wVdd.5$Au6.4@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:21:25 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.27.48.106 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1098825686 192.27.48.106 (Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:21:26 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:21:26 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5738 Date: 2004-10-26T16:21:25-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1wVdd.5$Au6.4@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com>, Mark H Johnson writes: > [snip - lots of back & forth] > I pointed out that TCP/IP was devised without depending on an underlying > mechanism like ASN.1 implementations which solve the marshalling problem. > Why is that relevant to the OP's question about implementation differences between compilers and platforms? Are you suggesting that the standard for TCP/IP be reimplemented using ASN.1 on a variety of platforms? I still don't see how your statement above (and in previous messages) addresses the OP's question. --Mark