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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Address to function pointer conversion
Date: 1997/06/14
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Date: 1997-06-14T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5nrq5h$13cm@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Michael Paus <michael@ifr16.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>I just stumbled over a little problem. I have a system address and I would 
>like to
>convert it to an access to function type. How can this be done correctly? 
>There is
>a generic package System.Address_To_Access_Conversions ...

It doesn't work for access-to-subprograms.

Where does this address come from?  It might make sense to instead use
an access-to-subp from the start, and apply pragma Convention(C) to the
type, thus telling the compiler "represent this like the C compiler".

- Bob