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From: Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au>
Subject: Re: Question on interface Ada to C
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:23:00 GMT
Date: 2004-05-26T10:23:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MrNoSpam-13D8D4.20230026052004@news-server.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x7vr7t85gsg.fsf@smaug.pushface.org

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> And I don't think C will understand a List_Pointer, because List_Type
> is unconstrained so any concrete List may have bounds with it. There's
> no reason to suppose that List'Address is the same as List
> (List'First)'Address. 


Ada83 was silent on this issue but Ada95 now mandates  this
behaviour.

So 

   List (List'First)'Address

will give you the address of the first item, not a descriptor.



Dale

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dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au



  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-25 21:00 Question on interface Ada to C James Alan Farrell
2004-05-25 21:30 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-05-25 21:38 ` Simon Wright
2004-05-26 10:23   ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2004-05-26 13:05   ` James Alan Farrell
2004-05-26 16:01     ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-26  7:34 ` Martin Krischik
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