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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Memory Access
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awdorrin <awdorrin@gmail.com> writes:

> I understand that the Bounds_Ptr is being used to assign array
> constraints to the dope vector. But I'm guessing that GNAT doesn't
> define these dope vectors using this sort of definition.

It probably does, just not quite the same!

> I haven't done much development in Ada, so I'm at a loss here. I'm
> making the assumption that the way this code was implemented
> (somewhere between 1992 and 98) was not really the right way to
> approach this problem. But I'm not sure what method should be used,
> and haven't had much luck the past few days searching the web and
> newsgroups.

I wonder whether Interfaces.C.Pointers would be appropriate?

http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-B-3-2.html