Re: Streams and Access types

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> 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. 

Clearly this can be done! Java does it (unless I'm mistaken). You have
to keep track of what's been serialized already, I suppose.