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,a71fc4911021ed50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Returning data from Ada to C References: <1115164192.585409.163780@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <9vYde.5480$GQ5.3731@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <4f1a9$4278d210$cf702d0d$18288@PRIMUS.CA> <1115503927.228956.100050@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 19:58:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.229.240 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1115582314 67.3.229.240 (Sun, 08 May 2005 12:58:34 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:58:34 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10957 Date: 2005-05-08T19:58:34+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > igor.kh@gmail.com wrote: > >> a_ptr := a'Unchecked_Access; > > This is not a pointer to C_Integer_Array. It's a pointer to the > anonymous array type in the declaration of A. Let me correct this statement: This is not a pointer to Int, which is how A_Ptr is declared. It's a pointer to the anonymous array type in the declaration of A. Not also that A is local to the Ada procedure, and will go away when the procedure returns, making A_Ptr a dangling reference. -- Jeff Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 07