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From: "Julian Morrison" <julian.morrison@virgin.net>
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Subject: Variable length raw-byte data
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:38:23 +0000
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I'm trying to shim to a C library that returns some data as a length in
bytes and a pointer to the first byte. The length is not known at compile
time. Is there any way I can morph this into an array of mod 2**8? I'm
using the latest Linux GNAT.