From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,693c0db9fd624c1d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-28 09:41:40 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: C Integers -> Booleans: shortcut? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7bEdb.1944$QH3.1487@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:46:40 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1064767299 81.98.236.164 (Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:41:39 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:41:39 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:74 Date: 2003-09-28T17:46:40+01:00 List-Id: Hi, Can you (in general) import a function taking/returning a C integer and treat it like a boolean for import? Let the compiler deal with the difference? Like say, function is_broke (something : sometype) return Boolean; pragma Import (C, Is_Broke, "is_broke"); with is_broke actually, int is_broke (sometype something); instead of going through function is_broke (something : sometype) return Boolean is begin return c_is_broke (something) /= 0; end is_broke; Cheers, Chris