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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86ec22e070e319c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: warwicks@telusplanet.net (Chris Warwick) Subject: Re: How do I get this to work?? Date: 1999/01/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433871384 References: <76s0dp$1v4$1@nntp3.uunet.ca> <76tbvv$ba5$1@nntp3.uunet.ca> <770ifd$qui$1@goblin.uunet.ca> <771bl9$sla$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77b9cp$5kh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77q5m8$e4o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 916634936 161.184.47.196 (Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:48:56 MDT) Organization: gerf inc. NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:48:56 MDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <77q5m8$e4o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: >The point here is that if you look at any program that >uses the keyword ALIASED extensively, then this is almost >always an example or importing C style into Ada (see >separate thread on importing Pascal into COBOL :-) and is >something that should be avoided. Almost always such code >can be written to avoid the use of ALIASED, and the result >will be improved, better structured code. I suppose I could create an active layer (package) on top of the C code and then bury the pointer within the layer... hmmm... is this what you have in mind when you talk about re-structuring the code??