Re: for x'address or variant

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

First:  If you're a newbie to Ada, you're taking the wrong approach.  If
that is the case, please elaborate a little more on the problem you're
trying to solve, maybe we can help with a different approach.

Second: If you're not a newbie and are showing a small subset of the problem
without the gory details, there is a pragma defined for the intent of
interfacing with C called "Unchecked_Union" that would allow you to do this.
The pragma is not currently (as far as I know) supported by the standard,
but is available with Gnat and ObjectAda (maybe more).  The Win32Ada
bindings have an example of the use of this pragma.

Steve
(The Duck)

"kat-Zygfryd" <6667@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:b7u1jh$p6k$1@news.onet.pl...
> I have a tiny problem, I want to have a structure:
> type P is access X;
> type X is record
>     next: array(1..2) of P;
>     left: P;
>     right: P;
> end record;
> wherein the left component uses next(1)'address
> and right component uses next(2)'address,
> unfortunately "for x'address use" statements are
> not allowed within record declarations, and
> variant records don't allow me to access both
> next and left/right exchangably. do you know a way
> to work this out?
>
> Zygfryd @gnat3.15
>
>