Re: Sockets.

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

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>         In the tradition of not re-inventing the wheel, has anyone
> completed or working on a UNIX sockets binding for Ada95?  I once had
> contact with the author of Paradise over a year ago, and he said he would
> attempt it when GNAT advanced some more, but I've found nothing yet.

I have been trying to get help on this topic for some time. I am
using the Win32 bindings to access the Winsock API which may/may-not
be of use to you. My problem is actually using the binding once I
have it. If anyone has any experience please let me know.

>         In addition, would it be possible to define a generic package
> with a discriminant, and then use that discriminate to instantiate a
> generic private child package?  From what I can tell, the answer should
> be no, but I'm not sure.
>
>         The reason I ask is it would make a package abstracting a
> system-dependant but common function easier and smaller; you instantiate
> the abtracted generic with a discriminant describing your OS type, and
> the package then instantiates the low-level binding appropriate to that
> OS...
>
> -- Cerebus <tmiller@ims.advantis.com>
> "Just a thought."
>
>

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