Re: Generalized serialization for enumeration types

[okellogg <okellogg@freenet.de>]

On 26 Aug., 12:22, xorque <xorquew...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> The encoding rules are simple:
>
>   The enumeration values are converted to unsigned 32 bit
>   integers with the first value as 0 and increasing sequentially
>   with each new value.
> [...]
> Freezing rules prevented me from writing a generic
> Packed_Enumeration_IO
> package ("representation item appears too late").

If your enums are represented as you describe then why do you need
representations?
You could rely on the natural Ada representation (which happens to
conform with your encoding rules as far as the enum values are
concerned).

--Oliver