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-- GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS --
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-- This child package of Ada.Strings.Unbounded provides some specialized
-- access functions which are intended to allow more efficient use of the
-- facilities of Ada.Strings.Unbounded, particularly by other layered
-- utilities (such as GNAT.SPITBOL.Patterns).
package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Aux is
pragma Preelaborate;
subtype Big_String is String (1 .. Positive'Last);
pragma Suppress_Initialization (Big_String);
-- Type used to obtain string access to given address. Initialization is
-- suppressed, since we never want to have variables of this type, and
-- we never want to attempt initialiazation of virtual variables of this
-- type (e.g. when pragma Normalize_Scalars is used).
type Big_String_Access is access all Big_String;
for Big_String_Access'Storage_Size use 0;
-- We use this access type to pass a pointer to an area of storage to be
-- accessed as a string. Of course when this pointer is used, it is the
-- responsibility of the accessor to ensure proper bounds. The storage
-- size clause ensures we do not allocate variables of this type.
procedure Get_String
(U : Unbounded_String;
S : out Big_String_Access;
L : out Natural);
pragma Inline (Get_String);
-- Return the internal string pointer used in the representation of an
-- unbounded string as well as the actual current length (which may be less
-- than S.all'Length because in general there can be extra space assigned).
-- The characters of this string may be not be modified via the returned
-- pointer, and are valid only as long as the original unbounded string is
-- not accessed or modified.
--
-- This procedure is much more efficient than the use of To_String
-- since it avoids the need to copy the string. The lower bound of the
-- referenced string returned by this call is always one, so the actual
-- string data is always accessible as S (1 .. L).
procedure Set_String
(U : out Unbounded_String;
Length : Positive;
Set : not null access procedure (S : out String));
pragma Inline (Set_String);
-- Create an unbounded string U with the given Length, using Set to fill
-- the contents of U.
end Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Aux;