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From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
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Subject: Interfacing to C and void*
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:19:44 +0100
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Hi,

Suppose I have the following two C functions:

void * factory();
void sink(void *p);

I use them this way:

void *someObject = factor();
sink(someObject);


What is the recommended approach to interfacing to such functions from 
Ada? I cannot find anything (in part B of AARM) that would help with 
void*. Of course, I could wrap these functions into something that uses 
long values (or some other tokens) and appropriate mapping at the level 
of the wrapper, but I still hope there is more direct way.


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