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  32 --  This child package of Ada.Strings.Unbounded provides some specialized
  33 --  access functions which are intended to allow more efficient use of the
  34 --  facilities of Ada.Strings.Unbounded, particularly by other layered
  35 --  utilities (such as GNAT.SPITBOL.Patterns).
  36
  37 package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Aux is
  38    pragma Preelaborate;
  39
  40    subtype Big_String is String (1 .. Positive'Last);
  41    pragma Suppress_Initialization (Big_String);
  42    --  Type used to obtain string access to given address. Initialization is
  43    --  suppressed, since we never want to have variables of this type, and
  44    --  we never want to attempt initialiazation of virtual variables of this
  45    --  type (e.g. when pragma Normalize_Scalars is used).
  46
  47    type Big_String_Access is access all Big_String;
  48    for Big_String_Access'Storage_Size use 0;
  49    --  We use this access type to pass a pointer to an area of storage to be
  50    --  accessed as a string. Of course when this pointer is used, it is the
  51    --  responsibility of the accessor to ensure proper bounds. The storage
  52    --  size clause ensures we do not allocate variables of this type.
  53
  54    procedure Get_String
  55      (U : Unbounded_String;
  56       S : out Big_String_Access;
  57       L : out Natural);
  58    pragma Inline (Get_String);
  59    --  This procedure returns the internal string pointer used in the
  60    --  representation of an unbounded string as well as the actual current
  61    --  length (which may be less than S.all'Length because in general there
  62    --  can be extra space assigned). The characters of this string may be
  63    --  not be modified via the returned pointer,  and are valid only as
  64    --  long as the original unbounded string is not accessed or modified.
  65    --
  66    --  This procedure is much more efficient than the use of To_String
  67    --  since it avoids the need to copy the string. The lower bound of the
  68    --  referenced string returned by this call is always one, so the actual
  69    --  string data is always accessible as S (1 .. L).
  70
  71    procedure Set_String (UP : in out Unbounded_String; S : String_Access);
  72    pragma Inline (Set_String);
  73    --  This version of Set_Unbounded_String takes a string access value, rather
  74    --  than a string. The lower bound of the string value is required to be
  75    --  one, and this requirement is not checked.
  76
  77 end Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Aux;