From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/02/25
Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b2l6s$vu3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36d3ba85.713118@nntp.concentric.net
In article <36d3ba85.713118@nntp.concentric.net>,
cjrgreen@concentric.net (Christopher Green) wrote:
> In
> this case, it is natural enough, though not fully
> portable, to declare an Ada array of the actual
> size and map it onto the C array with an address
> clause.
In Ada 83, this is ALWAYS an incorrect approach, because
it is erroneous, which means the compiler need make no
attempt at all (e.g. in suppressing optimziation) to
make this "work".
> In Ada 95, the package Interfaces.C.Pointers is
> a better solution to this kind of problem.
If you look at the implementation of this package, it
will almost certainly use unchecked conversion on pointers!
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-21 0:00 Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable? Steve Doiel
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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