From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc65ab136f46904d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <31dd80b2-3fd3-4078-8774-c396a52c94a0@r6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <0d509f1c-4ca7-4595-a026-65c108558d76@bl1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <35515c03-f565-4fc4-ac1c-e9b7268123b3@dn9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <1144e8e4-4193-4ffd-a8d2-145c38993eb2@p16g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <6301289c-f450-4d7f-8391-01e17d2555b9@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com> <6a7a2083-c659-48f0-9559-0d591c37e24b@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zc9mA4TqFT4vXl+a6CS7PA"; logging-data="10678"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Lhaq1+cspuKVbWyCgF6X2PD8JTtjmizM=" User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G1Zhb0rXeaD2FmSK+bm54vNshG0= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18985 Date: 2011-04-22T15:52:37+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:55:23 +0000, Alex Mentis wrote: > tonyg wrote: >> Yes that would work. I think I am going to mod the gnat-sercom package >> though for elegance's sake. Many thanks for taking the time, looking at >> it has improved my knowledge of Ada. > > For what it's worth, it may even be more elegant to just extend > GNAT.Serial_Communications by writing a child package (e.g.: > GNAT.Serial_Communications.Flow_Control) that defines any necessary > types and overloads the Set procedure, adding a flow control parameter. Thanks for pointing that out. I expect I should have thought of that, but I didn't... -Brian