From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: win32ada design question/problem
Date: 1998/11/13
Date: 1998-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72i3r9$o1r$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 364C5EDE.4F402D13@elca-matrix.ch
In article <364C5EDE.4F402D13@elca-matrix.ch>,
Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch wrote:
> I just had a look at the win32ada binding and found that I could not use
> it as I would like. Lets take this function as an example:
>
> > function WriteFile(hFile : Win32.Winnt.HANDLE;
> > lpBuffer : Win32.LPCVOID;
> > nNumberOfBytesToWrite : Win32.DWORD;
> > lpNumberOfBytesWritten: Win32.LPDWORD;
> > lpOverlapped : Win32.Winbase.LPOVERLAPPED)
> > return Win32.BOOL;
(snip)
> Of course I can use 'Unchecked_Access to circumvent this, but then I
> don't think that the binding is well designed if it requires
> 'Unchecked_Access all over the place in code that uses it.
It wasn't designed at all. (by Ada folk, anway) Its a *thin* binding. If you
want something that doesn't require unchecked programming to use, then you
want a thick binding.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-13 0:00 win32ada design question/problem Mats Weber
1998-11-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-19 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-19 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-11-13 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
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1998-11-19 0:00 tmoran
1998-11-19 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-24 0:00 ` dennison
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