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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Date: 19 Sep 1994 02:59:31 GMT
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In article <Cw717J.66q@alsys.com> , kst@alsys.com writes:
>For Ada 94 (assuming X=4 8-)}), I think Stream_IO does what you want.
>

Unfortunately not (as I read it!)
Each object in a stream has a tag appended to it so that the 
procedure S'Class'Read can reconstruct the value from the tag 
contained within the stream (13.13.2.14).
As well the representation of stream elements is implementation
defined (13.13.2.17)

The best solution seems to be to use pragma import or use the
Posix_IO package.

Dale
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