Re: UDP networking with Ada

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> writes:

> I have an interest in doing some network programming in Ada using UDP.
> I assumed I could use GNAT.Sockets but in reading the specification of
> that package it appears that it only supports TCP. I browsed around
> the various other GNAT packages but I didn't see anything for UDP and
> now I'm wondering what my options are.
>
> I assume Florist probably would work on Unix-like systems and Win32Ada
> would work on Windows systems (haven't looked at them in detail), but
> I was hoping for something cross-platform "out of the box."
>
> Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what I see with GNAT.Sockets?

GNAT.Sockets has this:

   type Mode_Type is (Socket_Stream, Socket_Datagram);

   ...

   procedure Create_Socket
     (Socket : out Socket_Type;
      Family : Family_Type := Family_Inet;
      Mode   : Mode_Type   := Socket_Stream);

Datagram would be UDP.

I think I've used that once or twice.

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