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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Question about interfacing C and Ada95
Date: 1999/11/12
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In article <80h2uc$kbt$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <80gh96$82d$1@trog.dera.gov.uk>,
>   "Hovers" <hovers@dera.gov.uk> wrote:
> > So essentially in out = *param

More or less, yes. The same goes for "out".

>
> Read the exact rules in the RM, and make sure that your compiler
> documents that it follows them (this documentation must be
> present in a conforming compiler, it is required, see annex M)

True. And (just to tweak Robert a bit :-) ) I'll also point out that it
is meerly "implementation advice" that it work this way. But this is
something you should be able to count on, and yell at your vendor if it
doesn't work.

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