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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how?
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Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> Well, on a PowerPC Z is 2#00001111# but I suspect you'd get a
> different answer on a little-endian machine ..

Actually, that's on a PowerPC with your specific compiler. Another 
compiler might give a different result for the same target. 2#00110011# 
is a perfectly acceptable result. That's why this kind of thing, while 
interesting, is not very useful.

FWIW, with MinGW GNAT 3.4.2 targeting Windows XP on an AMD Turion64 X2, 
Z is 2#11110000#.

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Jeff Carter
"People called Romanes, they go the house?"
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