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On 06/09/2011 03:40 AM, milouz wrote:
>
>> More correctly, you *think* you need to play with address arithmetic. You may be
>> right, but address arithmetic is needed extremely rarely in Ada. Ada has
>> alternatives to most address arithmetic in C.
>
> You're probably right. But what are those alternatives ?

That depends on what you're trying to do. Probably the most common is (I 
apologize if my C is wrong)

p = a;
while (*p++) {
    /* do something with *p */
}

(which is wrong any since "a" may not contain a zero, and you go off accessing 
memory you shouldn't. This kind of thing is why C coders are creating yet more 
buffer-overflow vulnerabilities even as I type)

In Ada, one uses indexing:

for I in A'range loop
    -- Do something with A (I).
end loop;

-- 
Jeff Carter
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