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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Interfacing to C and void*
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:01:31 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Suppose I have the following two C functions:
> 
> void * factory();
> void sink(void *p);
> 
> I use them this way:
> 
> void *someObject = factor();
> sink(someObject);
> 
> 
> What is the recommended approach to interfacing to such functions from
> Ada? I cannot find anything (in part B of AARM) that would help with
> void*. Of course, I could wrap these functions into something that uses
> long values (or some other tokens) and appropriate mapping at the level
> of the wrapper, but I still hope there is more direct way.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Memory#Where_is_void.2A.3F

Martin
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