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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Streams in Ada
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:47:58 GMT
Date: 2001-04-02T13:47:58+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iq%x6.234$UK4.22262@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccwv95fulm.fsf@world.std.com

In article <wccwv95fulm.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff says...
>
>"chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:
>
>> What are the stream elements in this case?
>
>Stream_Element is declared at RM-13.13.1(4).  You have to look at your
>compiler's documentation to see for sure what it is.
>
>But in practise, it's almost always an 8-bit byte ("octet").
>I.e., type Stream_Element is mod 2**8;

I generally feel better calculating it anyway, just to be safe (and portable).
Just use the following declaration:

Bytes_Per_Element  : constant := (Ada.Streams.Stream_Element'Size + 7) / 8;

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-02 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-31 14:49 Streams in Ada chris.danx
2001-03-31 15:22 ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 21:37   ` Jeff Creem
2001-03-31 21:49     ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 22:21       ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-31 22:33         ` chris.danx
2001-04-02 13:47         ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-04-02 14:03           ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 14:29             ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 14:54               ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 14:47             ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 15:10               ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 15:49                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 16:57                   ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 17:43                     ` PDP-10, was " tmoran
2001-04-02 17:49                     ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 22:09                       ` 6-bit characters (was: Re: Streams in Ada) Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-02 23:29                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 16:41                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-03 17:57                             ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-03 18:19                               ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-05 18:37                                 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-03 18:04                             ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-06 22:40                             ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 14:10                         ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-03  1:57                       ` Streams in Ada Larry Kilgallen
2001-04-03 14:13                         ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-13 23:21                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 17:41                   ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 18:17                     ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 19:36                       ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-02 20:54                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 10:10                         ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-03 14:21                           ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-03 18:15                             ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-03 23:21                               ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 21:13                       ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 21:22                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03 10:02                           ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02 16:42                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-13  5:00                 ` David Thompson
2001-03-31 20:48 ` James Rogers
2001-03-31 21:20   ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 21:22     ` chris.danx
2001-03-31 23:10     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-04-01 11:27       ` chris.danx
2001-04-02 14:12     ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 14:00   ` Ted Dennison
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2001-04-05 14:24 Brian Gaffney
2001-04-06 22:54 ` Robert A Duff
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