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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Question about Streams and UDP sockets using GNAT.Sockets
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:13:00 +0200
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:07:24 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>> Don't use String'Write. GNAT implementation treats strings as array so
>> characters don't coalesce. It is unexpected, but legal. You might wish to
>> define your own type of the packet and implement a suitable write (and
>> read) for it.
> 
> Since the language defines String as an array type, it would be strange 
> to expect anything else.

Yet, the language does not prescribe that each element of that array should
be written using an individual call to stream's Write. Compare it with an
implementation of assignment. The language does not require the compiler to
copy each string character individually. It is free to use memcpy.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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