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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:03:48 +0100
From: Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>
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Subject: Re: Pointers in Ada
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Date: 2005-03-04T14:03:48+01:00
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Sebastian wrote:
>    -- How do I Initialize my message to send?
>    Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out'access := Output_Msg; --this does not work?
>    Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out.all    := Output_Msg; --this does not work?

well, it seems you are having a lot of troubles with pointers/access 
types.

what you want to do is setting Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out to a value which will 
point to Output_Msg.

you wrote:
- first line: (vaguely) setting the address of Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out to be 
the same as the address of Output_Msg.
- second line: copy the content of Ouput_Msg at the address pointed to 
by Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out, which is uninitialized

reverse the problem !
Mdp_Msg_Ptr_Out := Output_Msg'Access;

note that this will need Output_Msg to be declared as aliased... also 
MDP_LLD.Client_Msg_Ptr_Type needs to be visible, and in your sample, 
it is private. (there are also other solutions to your problem).

I suggest you grab your favorite book on Ada and re-read the chapter 
concerning access types. don't try to do something too elaborated at 
first.

-- 
rien