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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Simple Data Endianness Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:28:13 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2a19cdb1-6f01-4b1d-8597-b6ee21ed60ed@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58046 Date: 2020-02-13T16:28:13+01:00 List-Id: 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