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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Interfacing to C and void*
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:41:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Memory#Where_is_void.2A.3F

I would have thought a null record would be a nicer method of declaring 
a void and then an access of that for "void *", e.g.

    type Void is null record;
    pragma Convention (C, Void);

    type Void_Ptr is access all Void;
    pragma Convention (C, Void_Ptr);

No?

Cheers

-- Martin