g-socket.ads, [...]: Improve documentation of GNAT.Sockets...

2008-04-08  Thomas Quinot  <quinot@adacore.com>

	* g-socket.ads, g-socket.adb: Improve documentation of GNAT.Sockets:
	add a pointer to generic sockets literature
	do not mention that the given example is "typical" usage.
	Remove obsolete comment about multicast not being supported on Windows.
	(Connect_Socket): Make Server mode IN rather than IN OUT
	since this formal is never modified.

From-SVN: r134036

diff --git a/gcc/ada/g-socket.adb b/gcc/ada/g-socket.adb
index 896a2c456522cad5dd3caa370d53626a663be16d..016b3fff227f54b1908acc0203848c033864c03a 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ada/g-socket.adb
+++ b/gcc/ada/g-socket.adb
@@ -574,10 +574,8 @@ package body GNAT.Sockets is
 
    procedure Connect_Socket
      (Socket : Socket_Type;
-      Server : in out Sock_Addr_Type)
+      Server : Sock_Addr_Type)
    is
-      pragma Warnings (Off, Server);
-
       Res : C.int;
       Sin : aliased Sockaddr_In;
       Len : constant C.int := Sin'Size / 8;

diff --git a/gcc/ada/g-socket.ads b/gcc/ada/g-socket.ads
index 38b857432b1875b054e8055085c945e049a13e9a..0ed1be0124db962330e72e22726be9bce3d470b1 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ada/g-socket.ads
+++ b/gcc/ada/g-socket.ads
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@
 
 --       Multicast is available only on systems which provide support for this
 --       feature, so it is not available if Multicast is not supported, or not
---       installed. In particular Multicast is not available with the Windows
---       version.
+--       installed.
 
 --       The VMS implementation was implemented using the DECC RTL Socket API,
 --       and is thus subject to limitations in the implementation of this API.
@@ -58,8 +57,13 @@ with System;
 package GNAT.Sockets is
 
    --  Sockets are designed to provide a consistent communication facility
-   --  between applications. This package provides an Ada-like interface
-   --  similar to that proposed as part of the BSD socket layer.
+   --  between applications. This package provides an Ada binding to the
+   --  the de-facto standard BSD sockets API. The documentation below covers
+   --  only the specific binding provided by this package. It assumes that
+   --  the reader is already familiar with general network programming and
+   --  sockets usage. A useful reference on this matter is W. Richard Stevens'
+   --  "UNIX Network Programming: The Sockets Networking API"
+   --  (ISBN: 0131411551).
 
    --  GNAT.Sockets has been designed with several ideas in mind
 
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ package GNAT.Sockets is
    --  notification of an asynchronous connect failure is delivered in the
    --  write socket set (POSIX) instead of the exception socket set (NT).
 
-   --  Here is a typical example of what you can do:
+   --  The example below demonstrates various features of GNAT.Sockets:
 
    --  with GNAT.Sockets; use GNAT.Sockets;
 
@@ -773,9 +777,9 @@ package GNAT.Sockets is
 
    procedure Connect_Socket
      (Socket : Socket_Type;
-      Server : in out Sock_Addr_Type);
-   --  Make a connection to another socket which has the address of
-   --  Server. Raises Socket_Error on error.
+      Server : Sock_Addr_Type);
+   --  Make a connection to another socket which has the address of Server.
+   --  Raises Socket_Error on error.
 
    procedure Control_Socket
      (Socket  : Socket_Type;