From: steved@pacifier.com@199.2.117.163 (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: GNAT Strings
Date: 1996/04/18
Date: 1996-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4l4d3c$4vo@news.pacifier.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4l0oiq$4e8@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.com
In <4l0oiq$4e8@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.com>, 100331.2264@compuserve.com (R.J. Kirkbride) writes:
>Does anyone know how strings are stored in GNAT,
>and thus how they can be sent from C.
>
>I think a pointer is first sent to the string and then
>a pointer to a structure containing first and last pointers
>but I am not absolutely sure this is correct.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated,
>
>Rob.
>
Look to the package "Interfaces.c" in the file i-c.ads and you will find a
function:
function To_Ada
(Item : in char_array;
Trim_Nul : in Boolean := True)
return String;
This is probably the ticket you're looking for.
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1996-04-16 0:00 GNAT Strings R.J. Kirkbride
1996-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-18 0:00 ` steved [this message]
1996-04-21 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
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