using prolog stream in c / big data input

[Jean-Paul Berger]

hi ev'ryone,


i am facing some serious problem when reading big amounts of data to prolog. 
i need to get a codes-list from a socket, which will be parsed using a DCG. 
but this list may contain up to 3Mb of data. i am using a recursive 
predicate read as follows:

% S is the stream and [A|B] the codes list
read(S,[A|B]) :-
        \+ at_end_of_stream,
        get_code(S, A),
        A \= -1, A \= 4,
        read(S, B).
read(_, []).

when trying to read a stream greater than 1.4Mb i get a stack overflow 
(GLOBALSZ=16000, LOCALSZ=16000, TRAILSZ=8000).

so now i would like to use a foreign C-function to get the data into the 
list. but i don't know, how to access the prolog-stream :(

OR is there any possibility to make the DCG-predicates use streams directly 
instead of lists? the grammar i am using is quite large, so it would be very 
hard to change that!


hope you can help me


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