Re: Using GNAT.Sockets with Streams and Byte Swapping

Florian Weimer wrote:

> Mark is not using an Ada 95 compiler, it seems. It used to be more
> difficult because the size of the base type determined the number of
> stream elements used, and the representation clause doesn't change it.

Read again. He _changed_ the size of the base type. (Universal_Integer
doesn't have a fixed size, does it?)


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