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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: First time Ada has let me down
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:43:20 GMT
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In article <39F7AC37.FF6445D@acm.org>,
  Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> It's extremely rare to need to use addresses in all-Ada code except
> when dealing with hardware, even in Ada 83. ...

..or in dealing with imported code and objects, which is what this case
is. A binding to some C facility like TCP/IP and sockets is going to be
chock full of addresses and/or Unchecked_Conversion's. (The "for
use at" overlay makes me wince a bit though).

The trick is to not export those ugly address-based interfaces past the
bindings.

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