From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: [Q]: arrays into mmap'ed memory
Date: 1996/09/06
Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50pvcv$1c0a@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ws968606kxa.fsf@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu
In article <ws968606kxa.fsf@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu>, guerby@gnat.com
(Laurent Guerby) writes:
|> Putting it all together with your comment on access to constrained
|> array, you can simply import mmap directly as returning the Ada access
|> type (using one mmap per acces type) and skip the System.Address
|> stage.
You seem to be assuming that the address returned by mmap has the same
representation as an Ada access type--a dangerous assumption. The
purpose of instantiating Address_To_Access_Conversions is to avoid having
to make this assumption.
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1996-08-28 0:00 [Q]: arrays into mmap'ed memory Jonas Nygren
1996-08-28 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-08-29 0:00 ` [Q]: " Jon S Anthony
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
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