Re: Get_Line vs Adasockets

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@dione.ids.pl>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Dennison wrote:

> > That won't work cause Incoming_Socket is not File_Type ... will work
> > if ther's some way to convert Incoming_Socket to File_Type.
> 
> 
> Well, the "File" parameter has to be of Ada.Text_IO.File_Type, of
> course. If its not, you are going to have to do something else besides
> Text_IO.

Well, function Get_Line is overloaded within adasockets package (it's nice
binding, at least for GNAT, available at http://www.infres.enst.fr/ANC/).
Unfortunately, author didn't overloaded Get_Line(socket,string,out
natural), but only Get_Line(socket). So, in case described by Marek,
Get_Line from Ada.Text_IO was called, resulting in type mismatch. His
second attempt caused array size mismatch (because Get_Line(socket) return
buffer length may vary).

One - obvious - solution is calling Get_Line at declaration time (just
like someone suggested here), other solution are: converting Socket to
Ada.Text_IO.File_Type or writing own Get_Line for sockets.

Regards,
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