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Ada Programming in Open Systems

Programming in Ada in an open-systems environment provides the opportunity to interconnect a variety of tools, languages, and platforms. For example, you can:

Along with this flexibility comes the requirement to create programs that work within the constraints of a variety of interrelated tools. For example:


Passing Data Between Ada Programs

Ada programs occasionally need to pass data back and forth through some method other than standard parameter passing. For example, using customized storage-management utilities or sending across a network. In such cases, the programs that send and receive the data need information on the format of the data to ensure that they agree on how to interpret it. Rational Ada provides attributes for data types that can be used to reconstruct data by the receiving Ada program.

To identify the format of data, you should be able to identify the platform and compiler version used to generate the data. The following attributes are provided to do this:

For assistance in the translation of data in different representations, use:

These attributes are described in the following sections:


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