From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7345e706c651a1a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sun.com!news.sun.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:51:26 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pragma Pack does not work on GNAT 5.01a for Redhat Linux. References: <1182259013.590515.118310@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Organization: Sun Microsystems Date: 07 Aug 2007 12:51:25 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cache-Post-Path: news1nwk!unknown@khepri06.norway.sun.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.18.43.225 X-Trace: sv3-WVglnnTi6/GXwx8VbByFKTMi0HbwV8M1CdndFlU6eYgawCXbJEfF7PjxSx+yy1uMthdpFUPvoiQWIm9!TOcwtPAG+fp+fwg4RFxtkSbli3M78JxU161mAYZ4QyFUnfrlHkIBCSij X-Complaints-To: abuse@sun.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@sun.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1369 Date: 2007-08-07T12:51:25+02:00 List-Id: Sorry for any confusion. My point was simply that XDR has been a de facto standard available to C programmers for a very long time. If you have an XDR library for Ada, you can exchange messages between C and Ada programs with no problems, since the protocol is described in terms of XDR, and not tided to any specific language. -- C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade.