Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
news:877f7b5llo.fsf@nightsong.com...
>> exponentially better than being prevented from overflowing a buffer is
>> being able to figure out how to do
>> declare
>>    B : Buffer (1 .. Just_The_Right_Size);
>
> Alternatively the buffer could be dynamically sized according to the
> data.  That's not in the Ada spirit because of the possible OOM and
> memory allocation latency getting in the way of embedded realtime
> applications, but for a workstation app it's perfectly workable.
> Horses for courses.

That's one possible way to use the API in question, since there's no way to 
find out beforehand how much data you'll need. (You could ask for the size 
ahead of time, but of course that's a potential race condition so it doesn't 
really help.)

                                 Randy.