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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:32:19 +0200
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> 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());
> 


I'd use references to normal arrays and if I wanted to be sure that
a program can rely on realloc() I'd consider a simple storage pool
using this OS function. (GNAT has System.Memory with ready made
bindings on some platforms.)

Then just call new Flex_Buffer(as needed). Possibly behind some
Container like interface (or Controlled and Reserve_Capacity in
Initialize).