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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: ada to c interfaces and CHARS_PTR
Date: 2000/03/13
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In article <38C81310.41EB934A@mindspring.com>,
  Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > C has not 'in out' parameters, only 'in' parameters. To pass
the
>
> ???? Although I am still trying to figure this stuff out, it
seems to
> me that c as as much of an in/out as any other language has.


No, this is completely wrong, there is a very important semantic
difference between passing a parameter as IN OUT (which in Ada
is often free to pass by copy or by reference), and passing a
pointer by value. You should definitely read up on this in
standard books on programming languages, the difference is
pretty substantial semantically :-)


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