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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Address to function pointer conversion
Date: 1997/06/16
Date: 1997-06-16T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EBw65M.5MD@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33A5B0B3.7EA663D3@link.com


In article <33A5B0B3.7EA663D3@link.com>, Samuel Mize  <smize@link.com> wrote:
>I would agree EXCEPT -- dlsym is returning an address at run time,
>so you can't use pragma Import.  You still have the problem, how
>do you call this address from Ada?

True, but you can use pragma Convention(C) on the access-to-function
type.  Anyway, the caller needs to know what arguments to pass, so it's
expecting some particular argument profile.  So the caller, at least,
ought to know what to do.

- Bob




  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-16  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-13  0:00 Address to function pointer conversion Michael Paus
1997-06-13  0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00     ` John G. Volan
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1997-06-24  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25  0:00             ` Michael Paus
1997-06-13  0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-14  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-16  0:00   ` Michael Paus
1997-06-16  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-16  0:00       ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-16  0:00         ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-06-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-20  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-14  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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