Re: Adasockets storage problem

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Nazgul" <darkelf@aim.homelinux.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the Adasockets library to have network funcionallity in a program.
> The problem is, it works fine if the server and the client are both running
> in the same architecture, for example i386, but when the server runs in a
> HP-UX and the client in i386, the client raises and STORAGE_ERROR when
> receiving a string.
> 
> I suppose it's something about little endian/big endian and using htons(),
> htonl(),... like in C, but I don't know how to fix it.

Probably the string length is sent as a multibyte integer. You may
have to override String'Output, and send the length in a canonical
endianness.

SAL has some packages that help do endian conversions; see
SAL.Endianness and SAL.Gen.Word_Order_Convert.*

SAL is available at
http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/sal.html

GLADE (the multi-partition product that goes with GNAT) also has an
XDR package, that provides similar functionality (I've never used it).

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