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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Endianness independance
Date: 28 Feb 2003 11:10:06 -0500
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Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com writes:

> One big step towards interoperability and portability could be
> Endian-Portable record representation.
> 
> Does someone knows if Norman H. Cohen proposal for Endian-Portable record
> representation clauses is examined within language revision?

I was not aware that he had made a proposal that required language
revision. 

I use a variant of his technique now, with good results (once I
actually _know_ what the hardware endianness is :).

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-- Stephe