Re: Ada/Motif problem...

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Larry Kilgallen writes:

"Understanding that you have asked us how to lie to an Ada compiler...

> Any inspiration on how to pass Ada strings as callback data in Motif?

Depending on compiler specifics, you may be able to get away with
an access to a single character (the first in the string).

Larry Kilgallen"

But that doesn't really help at the other end, that is the routine that
gets called and gets passed a pointer to a character. It may know that
it points to the first character of a string, but how should it know how
long the string is? We lose the bounds of the string if we do this.


Dale