Re: Passing a String to a C/C++ Subprogram (Special Case)

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

On 10/16/2013 12:17 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> procedure Foo (A : String) is
>     procedure C_Prog (C_String : Address);
>     pragma Import (...);
>     pragma Assert (Character'Size = char'Size); -- sic!
> begin
>     C_Prog (A (A'First)'Address);

This will fail on a number of compilers. An Ada Address is not necessarily the 
same as a C pointer.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it
while the first legion marched across. If programmers today
worked under similar ground rules, they might well find
themselves getting much more interested in Ada!"
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