Re: Modes (was unbounded_string)

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:06:00 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
wrote:

>Since GNAT.OS_Lib.Getenv returns type String_Access, you have to use 
>String_Access if you want to use Getenv. But note the description of 
>Getenv from GNAT.OS_Lib:
>
>--  Get the value of the environment variable. Returns an access
>--  to the empty string if the environment variable does not exist
>--  or has an explicit null value (in some operating systems these
>--  are distinct cases, in others they are not; this interface
>--  abstracts away that difference. The argument is allocated on
>--  the heap (even in the null case), and needs to be freed explicitly
>--  when no longer needed to avoid memory leaks.

Awful, I didn't expected that from ACT. The design above is definitely
not Ada's idiom.

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Dmitry Kazakov
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