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On 26-Jul-14 08:13, Victor Porton wrote:
> Also: It seems that in Interfaces.C.Strings there is no function which
> creates an Ada string of specified length from a chars_ptr (without checking
> for NUL). Addition of such a function would be good, because it can be very
> fast (on some platforms it can be implemented as memcpy).

Such a function cannot exist: to determine the length of a C-style 
string you *must* scan through it for the terminating NULL. What you 
describe would be a "substring" method that can read beyond the 
string-bounds without raising an error... and I see no way that would 
end well.