Re: Read Windows login username in Ada 95

["Rego, P." <pvrego@gmail.com>]

> This no doubt expects a NUL-terminated string. I would use Char_Array for the 
> parameter and To_C to convert an Ada string passed to it.
> 
> >     pragma Import (C, GetEnv, "getenv");
> >
> >     Command : constant String := "USERNAME";
> >     Answer_Ptr : constant Interfaces.C.Strings.chars_ptr := GetEnv (Command);
> 
> You're not giving it a NUL-terminated string.

You're right, I'm gonna check the result.

> Who is responsible for freeing Answer_Ptr?

If I included an Free(Answer_Ptr), would it solve this?

> As Obry suggested, Ada.Environment_Variables is an all-Ada way to do this.

That's the Ada 2005 problem I explained above.

Thank you.