Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?

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

Ted Dennison wrote in message
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>Bj rn Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> wrote in message
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>> On 5 Nov 2002 06:30:59 -0800
>> dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote:
>> > Supposedly, that's what Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams is there for (see
>>
>> Hmm, I didn't try that because I assumed that it would write through
the
>> usual Standard_Output, and so the line break would be added anyways,
but
>> maybe I should give it a try.
>
>That's my worry too. Tell us how it works. :-)

I would be very surprised if a compiler implementer went out of their
way to add stuff there that OS does not add. In this case, neither
Windows nor Unix adds any line breaks to standard output, so why would
an Ada compiler? (If you're not using Windows or Unix, your mileage may
vary, but you probably don't have a standard output in the first
place...)

Of course, the ability of compiler implementers to do odd things should
never be underestimated. There is the case of the compiler that raises
Storage_Error for certain null string literals, for instance. So do test
it carefully, but I'd expect it to work.

               Randy Brukardt.