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The generic package Storage_IO provides for reading from and writing to an in−memory buffer. This generic package supports the construction of user−defined input−output packages.
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The generic library package Storage_IO has the following declaration:
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with Ada.IO_Exceptions; with System.Storage_Elements; generic type Element_Type is private; package Ada.Storage_IO is pragma Preelaborate(Storage_IO);
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Buffer_Size : constant System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count := implementation−defined; subtype Buffer_Type is System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Array(1..Buffer_Size);
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−− Input and output operations
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procedure Read (Buffer : in Buffer_Type; Item : out Element_Type);
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procedure Write(Buffer : out Buffer_Type; Item : in Element_Type);
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−− Exceptions
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Data_Error : exception renames IO_Exceptions.Data_Error; end Ada.Storage_IO;
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In each instance, the constant Buffer_Size has a value that is the size (in storage elements) of the buffer required to represent the content of an object of subtype Element_Type, including any implicit levels of indirection used by the implementation. The Read and Write procedures of Storage_IO correspond to the Read and Write procedures of Direct_IO (see A.8.4), but with the content of the Item parameter being read from or written into the specified Buffer, rather than an external file.
NOTES
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21 A buffer used for Storage_IO holds only one element at a time; an external file used for Direct_IO holds a sequence of elements.