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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ba2f8edf6a585206 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-20 01:20:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: File_Type Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 03:23:22 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <61f665c0.0404180417.72855af4@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1082449119 80895 212.85.156.195 (20 Apr 2004 08:18:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:18:39 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7352 Date: 2004-04-20T03:23:22-05:00 From "System.File_Control_Block" : type AFCB is abstract new Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type with record Stream : Interfaces.C_Streams.FILEs; -- The file descriptor which gets back to my comment on Interfaces.C.Streams :-) However ... > so there is *no* *way* you can hope to "use an Integer Type like a > File_Type" or "asign a File_Type the value 3". ... I totally agree. My thoughts were that the OP was trying to hook into the C integer file type descriptors rather than trying to create them. -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------