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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Simple Data Endianness
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:28:13 +0100
Date: 2020-02-13T16:28:13+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r23puc$gmd$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d91f27d2-56ac-4513-aef6-4e3056aa4fe3@googlegroups.com

On 2020-02-13 16:12, Optikos wrote:
> On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 5:10:44 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2020-02-13 10:42, guijarrockGuijarro 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?
> 
> If the exchange of app data between 2 or more computers is word-wise binary instead of byte-wise textual, such as via binary-formatted files or via binary-formatted datagrams/byte-streams as payload of networking protocols.

And how whatever protocol encoding format is could to "coexist" (?) with 
another itself (?)

In any case it has nothing to do with application data as kept in the 
memory.

BTW, supposing the exchange protocol happens to be Mayan numerals stored 
in GIF images. What representation clause we need in Ada for that?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13  9:42 Simple Data Endianness guijarrockguijarro
2020-02-13 11:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-13 15:12   ` Optikos
2020-02-13 15:28     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2020-02-13 16:47       ` Optikos
2020-02-13 17:29         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-13 20:36           ` Optikos
2020-02-14  8:20             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-14 17:25               ` Optikos
2020-02-14 20:22                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-15 14:56                   ` Optikos
2020-02-13 15:44 ` Daniel
2020-02-13 15:57   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-02-14 16:52 ` Shark8
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