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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Importing a Unix function call
Date: 1998/12/07
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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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