Re: Help with Copying Shared Memory to Local

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

"Beard, Frank [Contractor]" wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> > A : Storage_Array (1 .. Storage_Length);
> > for A'Address use Destination;
> > pragma Import (Ada, A);
> >
> > B : Storage_Array (1 .. Storage_Length);
> > for B'Address use Source;
> > pragma Import (Ada, B);
> >
> 
> Just curious.  Why the "pragma Import" on the object?

Pragma Import (Ada, ...); tells the compiler not to initialize the
object. In many cases (including this one, most likely) no
initialization will take place anyway, but pragma Import is the way to
be sure.

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Jeff Carter
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