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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets)
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

> Ada streams and endian issues are also important. Write a program
> that uses a socket between two endian different machines and the
> endian issue becomes painfully important.  This also shows up
> in the strangest places. My APQ PostgreSQL package lets you use
> Ada streams to write blobs to the database. Well, guess what. If
> you have machines of a different endian persuation trying to read
> back those blobs written by a different endian persuation (with
> Ada streams), then "they ain't right". Right now, I live with that
> limitation because there is no elegant way to fix this.

The GLADE (GNAT Annex E support) contains an implementation of
System.Stream_Attributes, in s-stratt.adb,  that magically makes streams
endian-independent (uses XDR formatting).

You do need to use the gnatmake flag (-a ?) that says "recompile
everything".