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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> UDP is a kind of thing... Basically, there is no use of UDP except for
> broadcasting, e.g. in LAN discovery.

Worked for us, sending radar measurements p-2-p at 200 Hz

> As for taking apart a UDP packet, it is straightforward. You simply
> declare a stream element array of the packet size and map it on the
> packet using:
>
>    pragma Import (Ada, A);
>    for A'Address use UDP_Packet'Address;
>
> And somewhere
>
>    pragma Assert (Stream_Element'Size = 8);
>
> just in case...

OK if the participants all have the same endianness. We used XDR (and
the translation cost is nil if the host is big-endian, as PowerPCs are;
all the critical machines were PowerPC).