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From: "Björn Lundin" <bjorn.lundin.nospam@swipnet.se>
Subject: Re: Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call'
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 21:35:03 +0100
Date: 2002-11-04T21:35:03+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7QAx9.465$0d2.1142@nntpserver.swip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 445cd6bf.0211041157.1537dfd5@posting.google.com

Jon wrote:

> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:<usmyhtkji.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
>> j_del_strother@hotmail.com (Jon) writes:

> Which leads on to my next question...
> Can you call a function & ignore its return value?  I'm using a lot of
> Win32 calls, all of which are written as functions rather than
> procedures, and I'm getting a huge mess of useless temporary variables
> just to allow me to call the functions.

Import them as procedures instead :)

  pragma Import(C, My_Ada_Procedure, My_C_Function);

in gnat you could use a pragma called something like
 Import_Valued_Procedure

/Bj�rn



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-04 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-04 15:05 Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call' Jon
2002-11-04 15:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-04 19:57   ` Jon
2002-11-04 20:35     ` Björn Lundin [this message]
2002-11-04 20:53       ` Björn Lundin
2002-11-04 20:48     ` Jim Rogers
2002-11-04 21:08       ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-05 22:15         ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-05 20:51       ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 15:06         ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-04 21:40     ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-11-05  9:29       ` Jon
2002-11-05  9:55         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-11-06 23:29         ` Randy Brukardt
2002-11-05 14:22     ` Ted Dennison
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