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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: pointer in C & in  Ada
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 18:52:09 +0200
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

>>You can use chars_ptr instead.  It is guaranteed to have the same
>>representation as void * in C (not by the Ada standard, but by the C
>>standard).
>
> ..assuming the compiler used for the C code bothers to follow that
> standard.

If the compiler is broken, all bets are off anyway.  For this
particular issue, I think it's highly unlikely you will find a
compiler which gets this wrong because historically, char * was used
in places where now, you are supposed to use void *.