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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Allocating a C string without heap
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:01:20 +0300
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Let we have an Ada String.

I need to pass it converted to a C string into a C library function.

Now I do it with Interfaces.C.Strings.New_String. But it is slow as it uses 
the heap and requires (not to forget incidentally!) further 
Interfaces.C.Strings.Free.

Is there a better way to do this? I mean that we would probably create a 
nul-terminated char_array (not on the heap but on the stack!) and pass the 
pointer to its first element.

This would be both safer an faster.

Can you elaborate on this?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org