Re: Sockets, Streams, and Element_Arrays: Much confusion

["Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not>]

On 2022-12-31 14:50, Mark Gardner wrote:
> 
> According to RM 13.13.1, "Stream_Element is mod implementation-defined" which to 
> me says there is no guarantee that they will be octets, unless this is specified 
> elsewhere?

The ARM has always tried to ensure that the language could be implemented on any 
kind of processor. Thus you have implementation-defined separate definitions of 
Storage_Element and Stream_Element, which need not be the same, and no guarantee 
that Interfaces contains declarations of Integer_8 or Unsigned_8.

But these days almost everything is byte oriented, so unless you need what 
you're writing to work on some unusual H/W, you can presume that both of these 
are bytes, and that Interfaces contains those declarations.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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