Re: put of access type

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Rob Solomon wrote:
> I would like to output a pointer to the screen.

Why? An access value is not usually meaningful.

In general, you can't do this. However, using an instantiation of 
System.Address_To_Access_Conversions, you can convert values of the access type 
Object_Pointer declared there to type System.Address. Then, using 
System.Storage_Elements.To_Integer, you can convert that address to an integer 
type that you can output using 'Image with Ada.Text_IO or an instantiation of 
the appropriate generic from Ada.Text_IO.

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Jeff Carter
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