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Subject: Re: chr, ord etc
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:26:58 +0200
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Graham Barr wrote:

> As well as supporting big/little endian specifically, should we support
"native"
> ie packed in the same endian as the machine the code is being run on.

Certainly. I think we would want also want native sizes, so we can
ask for short, int, long etc and get the platform's size and byteorder.
If the concept gets accepted, then we can start extending.
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Peter Gibbs
EmKel Systems