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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:52:57 +0200
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com> writes:
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2:33 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The problem is that Ada.Containers.Vectors does not provide the
>>> necessary guarantees to be any useful in this context.
>> Right, that container does not guarantee that the underlying structure
>> is a contiguous array (as is the case in C++).  Think of it not as an
>> unbounded array (which would a physical view), but rather as a
>> container that provides random access (which is the logical view).
> 
> SAL.Poly.Unbounded_Arrays. http://stephe-leake.org/ada/sal.html

How would I pass the array storage of an Array_Type object
to a byte copying function? (As in 
write_to_device(&buffer[0], buffer.size());)