Re: System.Address to Access to function/procedure conversion

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

On 07/28/2013 08:27 AM, Tarek Ghaleb wrote:
>
> As for why not just pass an Access to the function directly, the
> Address is actually passed to a C function which later passes it back
> to Ada.

If you want any semblance of portability, then you should never pass an Address 
to C. You should only pass a C-convention access type. The value must be stored 
as a pointer on the C side, and there is no guarantee that Ada's Address has any 
relationship to a C pointer. A C-convention access type, on the other hand, is 
guaranteed to make sense as a C pointer.

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