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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Byte order writing to socket stream
Date: 18 May 2002 07:47:02 +0100
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> You may want to look into using Gnat's Annex E support (GLADE),
> which I believe deals with this issue *and* the communications
> issue. Both sides have to be Ada, though.

Clearly you could go to a lot to trouble to write C which understands
what GLADE does.

I don't know whether ACT make any guarantees about the stability of
the wire format used by their Annex E support between releases; to be
safe you might want to use the same release both ends.

You'd be most unlikely to get interoperability with other Ada
compilers (even if you could find one with Annex A support).