From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Better way to fill Storage_IO? Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 08:24:10 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3cfe02b8-18d3-4673-b808-48ad29092517n@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62008 List-Id: On 2021-05-18 22:39, Simon Wright wrote: > Michael Hardeman 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. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de