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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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On 1 Cze, 09:30, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> type Device_Buffer is array (Positiver range <>)
>    of Interfaces.C.unsigned_char;

I might want to pack it.

> The maximal block size is usually known. If not, then device is
> stream-oriented and blocks can be safely split into chucks of known size.

Yes.

> In that case Device_Buffer is a segmented buffer. In most cases you don't
> need to realloc anything.

Which means - in the worst case I need a list (or some other
container) of Device_Buffers. Yes, that makes sense.

Thank you,

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Maciej Sobczak
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