A.18.24 The Generic Package Containers.Bounded_Ordered_Sets
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The language-defined generic package Containers.Bounded_Ordered_Sets
provides a private type Set and a set of operations. It provides the
same operations as the package Containers.Ordered_Sets (see
A.18.9),
with the difference that the maximum storage is bounded.
Static Semantics
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The declaration of the generic library package Containers.Bounded_Ordered_Sets
has the same contents and semantics as Containers.Ordered_Sets except:
The type Set is declared
with a discriminant that specifies the capacity (maximum number of elements)
as follows:
type Set (Capacity : Count_Type) is tagged private;
The type Set needs finalization if and only if
type Element_Type needs finalization.
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The type Set cannot depend on package Ada.Finalization unless the element
type depends on that package. The objects returned from the Iterator
and Reference functions probably do depend on package Ada.Finalization.
Restricted environments may need to avoid use of those functions and
their associated types.
If Insert (or Include) adds an element, a check
is made that the capacity is not exceeded, and Capacity_Error is raised
if this check fails.
In procedure Assign, if Source length is greater
than Target capacity, then Capacity_Error is propagated.
The function Copy
is replaced with:
function Copy (Source : Set;
Capacity : Count_Type := 0)
return Set;
Returns a set whose elements are initialized from
the values in Source. If Capacity is 0, then the set capacity is the
length of Source; if Capacity is equal to or greater than the length
of Source, the set capacity is the specified value; otherwise, the operation
propagates Capacity_Error.
Bounded (Run-Time) Errors
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It is a bounded error to assign from a bounded set
object while tampering with elements [or cursors] of that object is prohibited.
Either Program_Error is raised by the assignment, execution proceeds
with the target object prohibiting tampering with elements [or cursors],
or execution proceeds normally.
Proof: Tampering with elements includes
tampering with cursors, so we only really need to talk about tampering
with elements here; we mention cursors for clarity.
Erroneous Execution
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When a bounded set object
S is finalized, if tampering with cursors
is prohibited for
S other than due to an assignment from another
set, then execution is erroneous.
Reason: This is a tampering event, but
since the implementation is not allowed to use Ada.Finalization, it is
not possible in a pure Ada implementation to detect this error. (There
is no Finalize routine that will be called that could make the check.)
Since the check probably cannot be made, the bad effects that could occur
(such as an iterator going into an infinite loop or accessing a nonexistent
element) cannot be prevented and we have to allow anything. We do allow
re-assigning an object that only prohibits tampering because it was copied
from another object as that cannot cause any negative effects.
Implementation Requirements
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For each instance of Containers.Ordered_Sets and each instance of Containers.Bounded_Ordered_Sets,
if the two instances meet the following conditions, then the output generated
by the Set'Output or Set'Write subprograms of either instance shall be
readable by the Set'Input or Set'Read of the other instance, respectively:
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the Element_Type parameters of the two instances are statically matching
subtypes of the same type; and
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the output generated by Element_Type'Output or Element_Type'Write is
readable by Element_Type'Input or Element_Type'Read, respectively (where
Element_Type denotes the type of the two actual Element_Type parameters).
Implementation Advice
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Bounded ordered set objects should be implemented without implicit pointers
or dynamic allocation.
Implementation Advice: Bounded ordered
set objects should be implemented without implicit pointers or dynamic
allocation.
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The implementation advice for procedure Move to minimize copying does
not apply.
Implementation Advice: The implementation
advice for procedure Move to minimize copying does not apply to bounded
ordered sets.
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