Re: Dynamically reallocated buffer

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

In <1180679626.254857.59070@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,  Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:
>I need a dynamically reallocated buffer of bytes, which I can extend
>at run-time by appending new fragments to the whole buffer. The
>purpose of the buffer is to pass it later to the subprogram that
>writes it "en bloc" to some external device.
>
>For those of you who know C++ I need something like:
>
>vector<unsigned char> buffer;
>// fill the buffer with push_back or insert at end
>// ...
>write_to_device(&buffer[0], buffer.size());

Stay away from C++. Its the same as a girl on PMS.


>
>The problem is that Ada.Containers.Vectors does not provide the
>necessary guarantees to be any useful in this context.
>
>What are your suggestions?

Did this using Ada 83 for strings vectors for my first class.  Which 
shocked my prof because he said what I had in mine could not be 
done.  The code is at the ACM code server.  Using the code it can 
be modified to work for all Ada packages.