From: kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson)
Subject: Re: Need help re: System Calls
Date: 1997/04/09
Date: 1997-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E8E5r5.ArC@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SGI.3.94.970406210904.4241A-100000@sandcast <860461839.15snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl
In <860461839.15snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) writes:
[...]
> In this case you can take advantage of the fact that for GNAT
> Interfaces.C.int equals Integer.
How is this an advantage? What's wrong with using Interfaces.C.int?
> But, as you also need to convert the
> Ada string into a C-type zero terminated ascii character array, it is
> probably useful to put a wrapper around the C library call:
[code deleted]
As long as you're putting a wrapper around it, let the wrapper do the
conversion from Interfaces.C.int to Integer.
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1997-04-09 0:00 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
1997-04-08 0:00 Need help re: System Calls Jerry van Dijk
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1997-04-07 0:00 Chris Morgan
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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1997-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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1997-04-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-06 0:00 Bill Roland
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