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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Simple Data Endianness
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:10:40 +0100
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On 2020-02-13 10:42, guijarrockguijarro@gmail.com wrote:

> The problem I present today is related to the coexistence between big-endian and little-endian application data.

How low-level representation aspect might be relevant to application data?

[...]

>     type Colour is (BLACK,YELLOW,WHITE,RED);
>     for Colour'SIZE use 32;
> 
> Is there any analogous way of doing this as in the case of compound types?

Should it include middle-endian packed binary-coded decimals with memory 
parity bits? (:-))

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