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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Please help with my lua binding
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* > I tried to define it as:
>
> type lua_State is access lua_State;
> pragma Import (C, lua_State, "lua_State");

   type lua_State is private;

And then:

   type lua_State is new System.Address;

This actually serves as "lua_State *" on the Ada side.  It's not 100%
correct, but I'm pretty sure it works on all GCC-based platforms
support by GNAT.