Re: Better way to fill Storage_IO?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2021-05-18 22:39, Simon Wright wrote:
> Michael Hardeman <mhardeman25@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I was kind of hoping there would be an interface like
>> Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams, where you could just directly stream from
>> the variable's address or access without having to write the variable
>> into the stream first. I'm not sure, but the writing part seems a bit
>> like an extra step.
> [...]
>> I was kind of trying to show you could move through the stream like a
>> parser instead of just consuming the whole thing. i.e. like if you
>> wanted to parse the hex into an array of Unsigned_32 or Unsigned_64
>> for some algorithm.
> 
> I don't understand the scenario.
> 
>    Source   >>   Stream   >>   Destination
> 
> If Source and Destination are in the same process, there's no need to
> involve streams at all.

The picture actually is:

    Producer -> Output stream = Input Stream -> Consumer

The producer could be a code generator, the consumer could be a parser.

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