From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: win32ada design question/problem
Date: 1998/11/17
Date: 1998-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72s2as$pbg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ubtm7cxj0.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
In article <ubtm7cxj0.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> While I agree it wasn't well designed, I don't agree you need to go to
> a thick binding. The binding should use 'out' parameter modes in the
> places where C uses pointers to achieve output parameters. Most
> compilers will map an 'out' parameter to a C pointer, since that's
> what 'by reference' means.
Actually, according to B.3(68), that is *required* behavour. The problem with
that technique is that many C routines attach a signifigance to a incomming
value of null. You won't be able to produce such a value on the Ada side, so
some of the functionality of the C routine will be lost.
--
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 ` dennison
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-11-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison
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 ` 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
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Roga Danar
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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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