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From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Is this actually possible?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:14:31 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2019-12-12T07:14:31-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5260b4d5-23e7-40f4-ada7-6a3158dbdf80@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qstj1i$1f4l$1@gioia.aioe.org>

On Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:32:21 UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> On 2019-12-12 11:17, Lucretia wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:34:15 UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> >> On 2019-12-11 22:12, Lucretia wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 19:58:54 UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> >>
> >>>> If you need objects that could be packed into C arrays use a variant
> >>>> record with the choice discriminant having a default.
> >>>
> >>> But in my cases, a variant cannot be used.
> >>
> >> Why? You must know all variants in order to compute the array element
> >> size. In Ada you cannot have it either:
> > 
> > Because it's a binding to a C record: https://github.com/Lucretia/aplug/blob/master/ladspa/src/ladspa.ads#L113
> 
> I cannot recognize problem there.

That's a predefined struct, it's referenced in the Descriptors below it. It cannot be changed. The API is too cyclic AFAIK to make generics out of it all.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-12 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-11 16:43 Is this actually possible? Lucretia
2019-12-11 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-11 17:54   ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 19:55     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-11 19:58     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-11 21:12       ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 21:34         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12  2:00           ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-12  9:26             ` Niklas Holsti
2020-04-08 16:10             ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-12-12 10:17           ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 14:32             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 15:14               ` Lucretia [this message]
2019-12-12 15:15                 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 18:24                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 18:30                     ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 19:09                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 20:54                         ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 21:12                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-13 11:11                             ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 19:59 ` Randy Brukardt
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