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From: "Julian Morrison" <julian@extropy.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Questions: interfacing to C
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 04:56:52 +0000
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"James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Your two questions seem to be summarized by: "How do I bind to a C
> pointer?"
> 
> The answer is to use the package Interfaces.C.Pointers. This package is
> described in section B.3.2 of the Ada Reference Manual.

I know the "pragma Import" converts some of the stuff (record to struct*)
but not if it converts returned pointers.

I also don't know if "pragma Convention (C, FOO)" allows access elements
within FOO to map straight onto equivalent pointers in the C struct
version.