Re: Streams and Access types

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Rodrigo Garc�a <rodrigo.garcia@epfl.ch> writes:

>    One solution is to do custom serialization but, does anybody knows
> of an Ada compiler that can automatically serialize the objects
> pointed by access variables (recursively if needed, such in the case
> of the linked list)?

This is not possible in general. How would the compiler resolve a
circular list? All doubly-linked lists have circles, so it is a real
problem. 

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