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From: "Chris Warwick" <chris.warwick@cdcgy.com>
Subject: Re: How do I get this to work??
Date: 1999/01/05
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Sorry, perhaps I should have been a little more specific...

Chris Warwick wrote in message <76s0dp$1v4$1@nntp3.uunet.ca>...
>   package Ada_Front_End is
>
>      type Session_Type is
>         record
>            Status : integer := 0;
>         end record;
>
>      type Session_Ptr_Type is access Session_Type;
>
>      function Close_Port (Session : in Session_Ptr_Type) return integer;
>   end Ada_Front_End;
>
>   procedure Close_Connection is
>      Session : aliased constant Ada_Front_End.Session_Type;
>      Session_Ptr : Session_Ptr_Type := Session'Access;

It barfs here, because Session_Ptr_Type has greater scope than Session. My
problem is Close_Port needs a pointer to a Session, so I have to define the
Session_Ptr_Type at the highest level...

>   begin
>      Ada_Front_End.Close_Port
>            (Session => Session_Ptr);
>   end Close_Connection;
>
>