Re: Passing a String to a C/C++ Subprogram (Special Case)

[Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:48:11 PM UTC-5, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> . . .
> Hopefully we can presume that Eryndlia has already thought about this and knows what values the C code she's interfacing to is expecting to be in those bytes.
> 
>                             -- Adam

Yes, indeed!  The strings are either simple names or file paths.  Some important considerations are:

1) I am limited to Ada95 (so no aspects including type aspects)

2) The language of the underlying subprograms may or may not be C/C++.  This means I need to keep things as simple as possible for the client developer.  I am hoping that the "pragma Convention (C, ...)" will do what it sounds as if it does (along with a "pragma Import") to set things up properly.

3) I believe that the client developer will need to be responsible for adding any nul character, since the subprogram does not know whether there is junk at the end of the valid data.

-- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)