Re: Ada and Internet stuff

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <pQaj7.28143$sa.14123276@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com>, tmoran@acm.org
says...
>of input and encodes it in 4 output text characters.  But the code
>to automagically adjust to Stream_Elements that aren't 8 bits wide
>would, I suspect, be substantally less clear, and rarely used, so
>my base64 routine doesn't do it.  I thought about putting in
>a test that Stream_Element'size=8, but decided, again for simplicity
>and clarity vs frequency of use, to settle for a comment instead.
>Full generality might be an interesting exercise.

It only takes about 2 declarations to do this, and the resulting constants can
be named whatever is clearest for you (I usually use something like
"Foos_Per_Stream_Element").

But that assumes that you are using Unchecked_Conversion to convert between your
source data type and Stream_Element_Array. If you wanted to actually use
Stream_Element *as* your source data type, assuming a certian size would
probably simplify matters.

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