Re: Access type conversion...

[kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <3flau7$bgu@newsbf02.news.aol.com> whitteng@aol.com (Whitteng) writes:
> The others have shown examples of how to get the string's address.  Our
> standard way of getting the address of the first element of an array is
> 
>      addr := array(array'first)'address;
> 
> This works and seems to be the most portable.

Don't forget that this will raise Constraint_Error if the array has a
length of 0.

In the most common case, interfacing to C, this probably won't be a
problem; most C functions that take strings require at least a NUL
character.

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