From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Importing a Unix function call
Date: 1998/12/07
Date: 1998-12-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74gpdm$iv5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ogph5b2p.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
In article <m3ogph5b2p.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> "David Botton" <dbotton@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Since in Ada non-scalar types are passed by reference (ie as pointers) to C
> > functions you could get rid of the Access type and treat it just like C:
>
> Clearly, what we want is the function
>
> function Pipe (Files : out File_Descriptor_Array) return Int;
>
> but we can't express this thought using the language.
Yes. But neither can C, so for our purposes here its a good enough match.
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1998-12-04 0:00 Importing a Unix function call Steve Crowe
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-04 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-04 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-06 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-07 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
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