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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 11:29:44 +0200
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Didier Utheza <ddutheza@bu.edu> writes:

> About Ada95, like you I am in the vague. My guess is that it is not
> possible in pure Ada,

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).