From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1c1739e9e6a4a7c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: binding to C: popen References: <43fb258f$0$170$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <1140535533.025063.163680@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <43fb35a4$0$178$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> In-Reply-To: <43fb35a4$0$178$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:51:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.76.223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1140565861 67.150.76.223 (Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:51:01 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:51:01 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3053 Date: 2006-02-21T23:51:01+00:00 List-Id: Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote: > Yes but a C pointer is in Ada represented as system.address No, it's not. A C pointer in Ada is a C-convention access type. A C-convention access type must correspond to a C pointer. System.Address need not. -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 20