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From: David Gressett <gressett@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question about pointers in GNAT 3.15p on Windows 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:05:12 -0600
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:03:14 -0600, "David C. Hoos, Sr."
<david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:

>"Local" refers to the declarative region of the function X.
>
>That the pointer is "non-local" is a consequence of the fact that
>the pointer _type_ is not in the local region.
>
>It's hard to see what is the point of this exercise, since the
>value of P_Size is not used.  But, in general taking the access of
>a variable on the stack is not very useful (e.g., to return it as
>the result of a function), since the local stack variable is subject
>to corruption upon return from the function.

Thanks.  It's been 2 years since I have done any Ada, and I had
learned very much the previous time.

I ran across this while trying to do Windows system calls with the
Windows binding that comes with the GNAT Windows compiler.