From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Efficient io of arbitrary binary data.
Date: 1996/09/14
Date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.842730348@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Sep14.112929.1@eisner
Brian said
"> I considering how this program could be written in Ada (part of
> an attempt to become Ada literate in an Ada hostile environment)
> I a puzzled. The approaches which Ada seems to allow all require
> much more copying of data as I am not allowed to return a reference
> to a slice of an array I can only return the slice itself."
Well seeing as you have neither slices nor references to slices in C,
it is hardly possible that this limitation is a significant one! DOn't
assume that because you are writing in Ada, you *have* to use all its
features!
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-13 0:00 Efficient io of arbitrary binary data Brian R. Hanson
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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