Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation

Ada programming: Memory mapping

Examples of using POSIX.Memory_Mapping

You can see more examples of Ada programs using the POSIX API in my appendix to Understanding Unix/Linux programming. You can learn about Ada in the Ada Programming wikibook. My paper on persistent objects is also an example of using memory maps in Ada.

The unix command tail

• Tail2 (body)

Mapping a single object to/from a file

• Generic_Memory_Map (spec)
• Generic_Memory_Map (body)

Mapping an array to/from a file

• Generic_Memory_Mapped_Arrays (spec)
• Generic_Memory_Mapped_Arrays (body)
• Test_Memory_Mapped_Arrays (body)