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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Swapping in Ada
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:43:37 -0400
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markp <markwork66@yahoo.com> writes:

> Does Ada provide any built-in byte swapping routines such as ntohl,
> htons, etc.?

No, but the latest version of GNAT has a package called GNAT.Byte_Swapping.
The x86 version is written with machine code inserts.

- Bob