Re: Need help mapping a C struct to Ada

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

"(null)" wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to call some C functions from my Ada program.  The C function
> prototype and data types are basically
> 
>   typedef struct {
>     some fields...
>   } element;
> 
>   typedef struct {
>           int      num_elements;
>      element  the_elements[0];

My C isn't very good, but isn't this the same as

   element* the_elements;

since you have to "manually allocate the memory"?

If so, then you should probably use an access type with convention C in
Ada.