From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Writing Data to a file
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0100
Date: 2011-12-16T14:30:43+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjkkod8c.fsf@hugsarin.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 530c4f5e-3c00-4ad5-92de-a4faefad468d@p16g2000yqd.googlegroups.com
awdorrin <awdorrin@gmail.com> writes:
> The buffer is a block of memory that contains data, it could be text,
> integers, bytes, floating point numbers, whatever.
type Whatever is ...;
Buffer_Size : constant Natural := ...;
type Buffer is array (1 .. Buffer_Size);
> The AREA_PTR is the starting address of the memory block.
Area_Ptr : constant System.Address := ...;
Data : Buffer;
for Data'Address use Area_Ptr;
> So since all I have is a System.Address and offsets, I believe I have
> to cast/convert this a Stream_Element_Array.
No need. Just make sure your Ada data structure is located at the right
address (and has the right layout).
Jacob
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2011-12-15 18:13 Writing Data to a file awdorrin
2011-12-15 18:32 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-12-15 19:23 ` awdorrin
2011-12-16 0:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-12-16 13:30 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
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