Re: Ada Examples and Problems

[tmoran@acm.org]

>Maybe this would be a good idea for addition in Ada 0y.  An attribute that
>gives the total number of bytes/bits occupied by the fields not the record
>size.
>T'field_bytes
  The size in memory does not necessarily relate to the size in 'write.
It would be legal (if weird) for the 'write to write the bytes values
as comma separated integers, each expressed in Roman numerals.

>> time how many bytes something is going to occupy in a stream, but Ada
>> does not require that an ability to make that determination for all
>> types be available.
  You can determine it at run time by creating a dummy stream with
your own
procedure Write(Stream : in out My_Type; Item : in Stream_Element_Array);
and having that note Item'length for 'Writes on various things.