Re: Using GNAT.Sockets with Streams and Byte Swapping

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

"markp" <markwork66@yahoo.com> writes:

> We found the answer to our problem. We have types such as
> 
> type x is range 1..5;
> 
> We then make records including these types. In the rep specs, we define
> them to be 32 bits. Apparently, GNAT ignores the rep spec when doing
> the 'Write, so we are not sending the correct number of bits. The fix
> is:

This can be solved with the new Ada 2006 Stream_Size attribute.

http://www.adaic.com/standards/rm-amend/html/RM-13-13-2.html

Pascal.


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