Re: API design problem - buffer scatter I/O

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Do you have other ideas or suggestions for how to design such API?

Not sure this would meet your criteria but perhaps
you could ask the user to provide a Cursor.  The filling
procedure can fill the cells one after the other by
obtaining a pointer, say, through Element.

procedure Receive_Socket
     (Socket : Socket_Type;
      Item   : in out Cursor)
is
     while <we have data> loop
        Element(Item).all := <datum>;
        Next(Item);
     end loop;

end Receive_Socket;

where Element, by contract, would be a function
that returns a pointer to the next free
cell which would be in some of the buffers.


This, of course, shifts the problem of managing
multiple buffers elswhere...