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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: ada to c interfaces and CHARS_PTR
Date: 2000/03/15
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>I am really surprised at the lack of examples in this area.
  You might want to look at the various Windows bindings for
examples.  Each one has its own way of doing things, so looking
at several should give a reasonably wide range of examples.

>The ada code I inherited uses " foo : in system.address" as formal
>parameters for all of its calls to c.
  Ada 83?  OTOH, if it works, why change it?