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From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Access and alias
Date: 2000/04/05
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Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> writes:
> If you write your own bindings, you shouldn't work with 'address. Use an
> in out parameter instead. 
> E.g. proc (ref : SYSTEM.ADDRESS); --> proc (ref : in out X);

In general I agree, but in the Win32 API case, most parameters are at
the C pointer level and NULL has a special effect, so you cannot bind
with "in out".

--LG