Re: GNAT Ada.Streams Bug?

["Jeff C r e e.m" <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@NoSPAM.cogeco.ca> wrote in message 
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> This is on gnat-3.14p on debian (debian's package library doesn't
> seem to provide 3.15p), so this may be fixed by now:
>
> I am running into a Ada.Streams problem with 24 bit values (3 bytes).
> For example, if you use Ada.Streams to read in a partition table,
> defined as follows, with 3.14p, you'll read more bytes than needed
> (thus messing things up):
>

These might be helpful

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=t3f6rg54jlkfee%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dstreams%2Bcreem%2Bsize%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26selm%3Dt3f6rg54jlkfee%2540corp.supernews.com%26rnum%3D2

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=streams+creem+size&hl=en&lr=&selm=t739enmlcvuo2d%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1

http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00270.TXT?rev=1.6


In any case, you can "work around" this and get more efficient code to boot 
by writing your own 'read and 'write for  your record to read the whole
"hunk" of data in at once (based on the 'size of the record in terms of 
stream elements).