Re: How to print Task_ID type? (GNAT SunOS)

[joel@redstone.army.mil (Joel Sherrill)]

In article <4xu3yzpoi7.fsf@leibniz.enst-bretagne.fr>, Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr (Laurent Guerby) writes:
>Greg Bond writes
>: Indeed it is. My oversight. This function does not handle the more 
>: general problem I posed though. Is there a general facility for printing 
>: access types? 
>
>   No,  like in C you have  to convert them to  an integer type before
>printing  them  using your  favourite  output routine   (printf or Put
>;-).  This can be done in  "portable" Ada 95  (as far as  this kind of
>game can be tagged as portable ...) :

I am not sure what the origin of the "%p" printf specifier is but it is present for all the 
C libraries I use.  With it, you can:

  printf( "The address of X is %p\n", &X );

You are correct that without this, you must convert the address to an integer format.

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