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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/11
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Date: 1997-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
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Jim said

<<> If you want something equivalent to the macroized get_char, that is
> trivially easily programmed in C on top of stream_IO, perhaps it is
> a good idea for a standard package

Since that was the original point, this whole discussion has been
much ado about nothing.
>>

Actually I mistyped here, what I meant to say was "easily programmed
in Ada on top of [Ada] Stream_IO", and that is what would be a good idea
for a standard package.

One problem in using C I/O routines directly is that they are often
not properly thread safe, whereas you can count on Stream_IO being
thread safe, which is why it is safer to build on top of the existing
Ada packages.