Re: Array access via pointer?

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Ken Garlington wrote:
>
> > No, you don't have to allocate the arrays in the heap -- so long as
you're
> > willing to accept the risks of converting a System.Address to an access
> > type! (For the specific example I gave, the risks appear to be low in my
> > experience.)
>
>    And my experience has been quite the opposite!  If your only use of
> the 'trick' is to convert the address of an object to an access value
> designating the object, it will usually work.  In general in Ada 95 the
> address of an array object should be the address of the first element:
>
>    "For an array X, X'Address should point at the first component of the
> array,
> and not at the array bounds."  RM 13.3(14)

Look at the code I posted. It doesn't take the address of an array.

>    The right solution, at least to the interfacing problems is to use
> Annex B.

Unfortunately, the problem is constrained to Ada83, so that's not much help.
The solution *as posted* works on a variety of compilers.