Re: win32ada design question/problem

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <731rn7$kj5@lotho.delphi.com>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> >- Try interfacing fcntl, setsockopt or some other weird functions using
> >access types: these somtimes return, or take as a parameter, a pointer
> >that points to a type that changes depending on the function you want to
> >perform, which is determined by the value of another parameter. You can
> >certainly do this with overloading, but I am not sure this buys much in
> >a thin binding.
>   This certainly happens, but relatively rarely.  I take it as yet
> another argument against too-thin bindings.

But there *has* to be a binding at this level somewhere! It might not be
directly called by most users, but it still has to be there.

--
T.E.D.

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