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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: 01 May 2002 23:17:29 +0100
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message news:<x7vsn5d23l0.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>...
> > Serialization (support of Ada.Streams) is only supported out of the
> > box for some types; not sure of the full details, but things
> > referenced by pointers are not included. So any unbounded container
> > will need some work.
> 
> Its supported out of the box for all types, but for some (eg:
> pointers) it doesn't work so well. (Actually, it works just fine for
> pointers too, as long as the program continues to run. :-) ).

Unless you send the serialized pointer into a different address
context ..