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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cfb384718eb4f7a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: question re Ada equivalent of C function Date: 1998/02/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 327543694 References: <34EEFF9C.1D01FA5D@stellar1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: 888167397 850 bpr 206.184.139.132 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 21 Feb 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: > This may be self-explanatory, but has nothing at all to do with the inp > and outp routines, which are accesses to the IO/space (and result in > generation of IN/OUT instructions). Brian was mislead here by the > rather confusing wording of the original question. Yes, I should have asked for clarification. I mapped the question to "How do you read and write to integer valued addresses in Ada" which isn't at all what was being asked. > Note that a C programmer can do this kind of reading directly from a > memory address even more easily than an Ada programmer, and certainly > does not need library routines for doing it :-) :-) That should have been a clue! Well David, as you can see free advice is worth every penny! -- Brian