Re: Newbie question about pointers in GNAT 3.15p on Windows 2000

[David Gressett <gressett@airmail.net>]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:05:12 -0600, David Gressett
<gressett@airmail.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:03:14 -0600, "David C. Hoos, Sr."
><david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
>>"Local" refers to the declarative region of the function X.
>>
>>That the pointer is "non-local" is a consequence of the fact that
>>the pointer _type_ is not in the local region.
>>
>>It's hard to see what is the point of this exercise, since the
>>value of P_Size is not used.  But, in general taking the access of
>>a variable on the stack is not very useful (e.g., to return it as
>>the result of a function), since the local stack variable is subject
>>to corruption upon return from the function.
>
>Thanks.  It's been 2 years since I have done any Ada, and I had
>learned very much the previous time.

Oops -  that should have been " had not learned".
>
>I ran across this while trying to do Windows system calls with the
>Windows binding that comes with the GNAT Windows compiler.