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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/22
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Date: 1997-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
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i<<I totally disagree with your use of the term "misuse" here. The only other
Ada 83 I/O package that can possibly be used to read a binary file is Direct I/O
>>

Nope, Direct_IO is also unsuitable for simulating stream_io in Ada 83 in a
portable manner.

As for writing waivers, no one ever rqeuired a waiver for using pragma
Interface to interface to existing libraries, especially ANSI C libraries,
the idea is absurd. Yes, I know, some procurement people do absurd
things.

Your "use" of sequential_io was still inappropriate, because you were
writing highly non-portable code, which might even have broken using
the next version of the sam e compiler, let alone a different compiler.