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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Need help mapping a C struct to Ada
Date: 22 Mar 2001 00:12:28 +0100
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Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> writes:

> My C isn't very good, but isn't this the same as
> 
>    element* the_elements;
> 
> since you have to "manually allocate the memory"?

No, the memory is allocated "inline", directly following after the
num_elements component.  No indirection.