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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Holders in GNAT and Ada2012
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:32:24 +0100
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Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

> One (real World!) usage for this: Interfaces.C.Strings.To_Chars_Ptr
> applied to an element in an indefinite holder of type char_array.

I don't know what your actual usage is, but I'd prefer in general to
keep to Ada types in the application, and only do interfacing at the
edges.