Re: C bindings, Interfaces.C.Pointers etc.

[tmoran@acm.org]

>4)  Is there some convenient shortcut to avoid using I.C.P?
>    perhaps by declaring an Ada constrained array much larger than
>    intended, and using a subset.
  That's what I'd do.  You clearly can't expect Ada to bounds check an
array that has no bounds, ie, a C array.  If C is doing all the allocating
there's no memory penalty.  If Ada is doing the allocating, you might want
to tell Ada you have a (fixed size) one dimensional array of pointers to
elements, rather than to arrays, and let C assume a pointer to a first
element is a pointer to an array.