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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Interfaces.C
Date: 6 Nov 1994 01:15:29 GMT
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In article <1994Nov2.142450@lglsun.epfl.ch> Robb Nebbe, nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch
writes:

>If you just want to pass parameters to the C function you would write:
>
>  type Int_Array is array( Natural range <> ) of C.int
>  -- the range could be anything but C will treat it as starting at 0
>
>  procedure foo( a : in Int_Array; l : in C.int );
>  pragma Import( C, foo );
>
>

But this says something different to void foo(int *a, int l).
A better version would be 

	procedure foo( a : in out Int_Array; l :in C.int);

Will this still be passed by reference?

Dale
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