Re: Access to array slices?

[wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)]

Hi,

> The first thing I would do is forget that the data comes from C structures,
> since from what you have described that is unimportant. 

That's right.

> You could also use Ada streams.

Are they buffered or each 'Read and 'Input will result in a syscall?
There is a highly optimized C reference implementation, and I don't
want mine to stay much behind. Well, I will find out with strace
RSN...

>   -- (...)
>   Do_Something_With_Data( name, value );
>   -- (...)

This "Something_With_Data" is many different things. This is why I
wanted a function returning an array of access to
Name_Value_Pair_Type, where name and value would be accesses to
strings.

Should I pass access to procedure there? Or declare this procedure
generic?

> In fact when dealing with a network I make it a point to put things 
> into network byte order.

When it comes to network byte order, this is a good thing:

http://www.ibpaus.de/downloads/AdaStreamsInNetworkByteOrder_020326.tar.gz

I think that GNAT using this is still compatible with RM, because byte
order for streams is not defined there. Correct?

> I hope this helps,

Yes, thanks!
However, access to array slice would be something :-;


Regards,
Wojtek