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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: C Interface
Date: 3 Apr 2002 07:59:54 -0800
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"Henrik Quintel" <henrik.quintel@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<a8enka$rns13$1@ID-79136.news.dfncis.de>...
> package C renames Interfaces.C;
...
> Chars1 : C.char_array(1..20);
...
> This example works very fine with my compiler. Now, I have tried to display
> the contents
> of Chars1 but I don't know how. I have tried several ways but no one worked.

Generally, I would convert such a string into an Ada string (using
Interfaces.C.To_Ada) to deal with it inside of Ada, rather than trying
to deal directly with the C string. If you let C use C strings, and
Ada use Ada strings, the world is a happier place. :-)

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