From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: TYPE'Size in static expression
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:55:03 +0200
Date: 2005-10-21T10:55:07+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06ipbbj9t3d.15cu37vh2fjuo.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4358A12B.4030601@dif.andthis.um.es
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:04:59 +0200, Francisco J. Montoya wrote:
> I'm trying to write a generic (container) package whose only parameter
> is a type BaseType. I need to define an array of elements of this type
> (some kind of buffer) but I'd like the size of this buffer to be
> approximately constant regardless of the size of each BaseType element.
> My first attempt was to make some definitions like the following:
>
> Buffer_Size : constant := 1024; -- 1Kb buffer
> Num_Elements : constant := 8 * Buffer_Size / BaseType'Size; -- Wrong!
Num_Elements : constant Integer :=
8 * Buffer_Size / BaseType'Size;
> type Buffer is array (1..Num_Elements) of BaseType;
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-21 8:04 TYPE'Size in static expression Francisco J. Montoya
2005-10-21 8:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2005-10-21 22:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-24 10:56 ` Francisco J. Montoya
2005-10-24 11:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-24 19:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-24 20:15 ` Robert A Duff
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