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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Storage_IO: applied example?
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:02:43 -0700
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On 10/23/2012 01:28 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:42:43 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
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>> I'm seeking for a tiny use case showing `Ada.Storage_IO` in action.
>
> It looks useless at first glance. The buffer size is fixed and
> implementation defined(!). Why would anybody use that rather than plain
> array?

The buffer is the correct size that corresponds to an object of Element_Type. 
Much easier than figuring that out oneself.

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Jeff Carter
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