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From: Danny <clarked@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: Ada address of operator?
Date: 1999/02/09
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Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Hi,

I'm trying to use a C library in an Ada function and a typical prototype
from this library would be

struct AType;
struct  AnotherType;

int getObject( AType *pType, AnotherType **ppAnotherType );

I've imported the function okay and it is being called.  The purpose of
the function is to use AType as an IN parameter and return a pointer to
AnotherType, which will be pointed to by ppAnotherType if you get what I
mean.

In Ada I have corresponding records for AType & AnotherType and have
declared AnotherTypePtr and AnotherTypePtrPtr.  What I think I need to
do is

pAnotherType : AntherTypePtr;
ppAnotherType : AnotherTypePtrPtr;

but I need to assign ppAnotherType the address of pAnotherType, the
equivalent C code would be

AnotherType *pAnotherType;
AnotherType **ppAnotherType = &pAnotherType;

any suggestions?

-Danny