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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Returning data from Ada to C
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 03:36:45 GMT
Date: 2005-05-06T03:36:45+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hDBee.6345$GQ5.6288@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f1a9$4278d210$cf702d0d$18288@PRIMUS.CA>

Igor Khavkine wrote:

> Ok, that's good to know. Also, will I be able to free Ada allocated
> memory with the standard C library `free()'? For example, what do I do if
> I want to free the storage pointed to by `solvec' below?

No. However, in the example, the memory isn't on the heap and shouldn't 
be deallocated.

> Great! Now, what type will `Solvec' have? I presume that GNAT will bark at
> me if I use the wrong type.

In Ada, it's a pointer to Double; to C it should look like a pointer to 
double. You probably should declare your array type to be convention C, 
just to be on the safe side.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish."
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-06  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-03 23:49 Returning data from Ada to C igor.kh
2005-05-04  4:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-05-04 13:45   ` Igor Khavkine
2005-05-04 13:58     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-05-06  3:36     ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2005-05-07 22:12       ` igor.kh
2005-05-08  2:07         ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-05-08 19:58           ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-05-08  9:41         ` Martin Dowie
2005-05-08 14:55           ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-05-08 14:58             ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-05-09 22:49               ` igor.kh
2005-05-10 12:48                 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-05-16  4:35   ` Dave Thompson
2005-05-16  5:03     ` Jeffrey Carter
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