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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b582310cfc030f2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-14 19:58:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!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:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mixed languages and frustration. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:58:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.190 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1066186737 63.184.105.190 (Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:58:57 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:58:57 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:870 Date: 2003-10-15T02:58:57+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > > If XYZ is an Ada access type, then > > the C pointer to the heap object is XYZ.all'Address This will usually work, but is not guaranteed to. System.Address is a private type because there are systems where an address doesn't map neatly to an integer, as a C pointer must. -- Jeff Carter "Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 20