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John R. Strohm wrote:
> types in Ada resemble those of pointers in other languages, the Ada
> compiler-writer is under NO obligation to implement access types using
> physical pointers.
> 
> Is this correct?

What is a physical pointer?  An address?
If so, you are correct.  I have found bugs
where a programmer thought (incorrectly)
that they could pass an access value to C
for a pointer instead of passing The_Access.all'Address