Re: Converting pointers to non nul-terminated C "strings" to Ada string

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Yannick Duchêne Hibou57 wrote:
>
> A dirty thing which comes into my mind : when you write
>
> procedure memory_data
>       (data   : out CS.chars_ptr;
>        size   : out C.int);
>
> you may doing some assumption about the the compiler's generated code.
> In my humble opinion, pointers in C declarations should be mapped to
> access types in Ada. There is nothing I know which assert that an Ada
> implementation must use access types to implement out parameters.

I may indeed. In most cases, I would use access types. I do extremely
heavy unit testing and haven't found a compiler/OS/arch combo where
the
above example doesn't work correctly, however.

> To know how to properly handle this, the first requirements is to
> exactly know what does datas stands for.

It's strictly a binary blob - the output of an encryption function.

> Have a nice sunday

Likewise!