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> exponentially better than being prevented from overflowing a buffer is
> being able to figure out how to do
> declare
>    B : Buffer (1 .. Just_The_Right_Size);

Alternatively the buffer could be dynamically sized according to the
data.  That's not in the Ada spirit because of the possible OOM and
memory allocation latency getting in the way of embedded realtime
applications, but for a workstation app it's perfectly workable.
Horses for courses.