Re: Passing a String to a C/C++ Subprogram (Special Case)

[Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:59:21 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 10/15/2013 12:54 PM, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote:
> 
> >  . . .
> 
> If I were doing this, I would wrap each in an Ada subprogram that ensures the 
> String will be passed correctly to C. Ultimately it will be less effort.
> 

Thanks, Jeff.  This could be a good way to manage things.  Unfortunately, I can not guarantee that I can perform a trim operation or that the last character is indeed not being used (for the placement of a nul).  I suppose I could create the wrapper, as you said, and copy the String (1 .. size) to a String (1 .. size + 1) and place a nul in the last character of the target string.  Of course, this does not add a lot of overhead for short strings, but it is a hard real-time system.

It sounds as if I need to get with my people and get a further, clear consensus about how this stuff is going to be used, in reality.

-- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)