Re: How can I avoid Using a Semaphore?

[mark_lundquist@my-deja.com]

In article <CbKa6.294821$U46.9394163@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>,
  "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com> wrote:
>
>
> After a little more reflection it occurs to me that what I really
want is
> for the format of data on a stream to be dependent on the stream, or
at
> least be capable of being dependent on the stream.

Yes...

>
> For example, within one application I may want to stream information
to a
> network in big endian format and stream information to files in little
> endian format.  From what I understand (I may certainly be wrong) I
cannot
> do this in Ada.

Certainly you can!

You do it by creating a new type derived from
Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type (or one of its descendants) and overriding
its primitives (like Read and Write).

>  If I want this functionality I must resort to C++.
>

Ye gads!
:-) :-)

Mark Lundquist
Rational Software


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