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From: Didier Utheza <ddutheza@bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: pointer in C & in  Ada
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:54:04 -0400
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Thanks for the information. My guess is that is usefull for interfacing
with C that uses it for anything.

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Didier Utheza <ddutheza@bu.edu> writes:
> 
> > About Ada95, like you I am in the vague. My guess is that it is not
> > possible in pure Ada,
> 
> You can use chars_ptr instead.  It is guaranteed to have the same
> representation as void * in C (not by the Ada standard, but by the C
> standard).
> 
>