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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Newbie question : types , representation
Date: 1999/08/23
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Wilhelm Spickermann <wilhelm.spickermann@t-online.de> writes:

> type Char_64_Array is array (Sometype) of Char_64;
> type Packed_Char_64_Array is new Char_64_Array;
> for Packed_Char_64_Array'Component_Size use 6;
> pragma Pack (Packed_Char_64_Array);

I would be very surprised if this didn't depend on the endianness of
your target machine (eg, probably OK on x86, probably not on SPARC)