Re: Ada Examples and Problems

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

> This just reminded me of a thread that was raging here for awhile last
> year regarding the 'Size of types and objects versus the number of bytes
> objects occupy in a stream (stream meaning the Stream_IO kind of
> stream).
>
> Bottom line:  There is _no_ required correspondence between those sizes.
>
> This can be frustrating at times, and did engender some smoke and fire
> in the newsgroup.  There are situations where one wants to know ahead of
> time how many bytes something is going to occupy in a stream, but Ada
> does not require that an ability to make that determination for all
> types be available.

Maybe this would be a good idea for addition in Ada 0y.  An attribute that
gives the total number of bytes/bits occupied by the fields not the record
size.

T'save_me_a_headache

or

T'field_bytes


Bye,
Chris