Re: simple question - how to emulate void * ?

[tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)]

You might look into Ada.Streams.  Alternatively, if you really want to
send the bytes comprising the data (which would make little sense if
they were pointers, say), you can either create an array of bytes,
located at the same address as the data, or simply do an unchecked
conversion from the data to an array of bytes of the appropriate size.
 type bytes is mod 256;
  for bytes'size use 8;
type byte_array_type is array(natural range <>) of bytes;
procedure send_bytes(b : in byte_array_type) is .....
procedure send(x : in some_record_type) is
  subtype x_byte_array_type is byte_array_type(1 .. x'size/8);
  for x_byte_array_type'size use x'size;
  function bytes_of is new
Ada.Unchecked_Conversion(source=>some_record_type;
     target=>x_byte_array_type);
begin
    send_bytes(bytes_of(x));
end send;
  (Typed in on the fly, but should give the general idea)