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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Convert chars_ptr to Ada String
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 01:48:46 +0300
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Anh Vo wrote:

> On Friday, July 7, 2017 at 2:03:32 PM UTC-7, Victor Porton wrote:
>> Remind me how to convert a pair of Ptr: chars_ptr and Size: size_t to an
>> Ada string.
>> 
>> Ptr may contain NULs and this should not influence the length of the
>> resulting string.
> 
> Look at APIs defined in package Interfaces.C.Strings.

I've done it:

https://github.com/vporton/redland-bindings/blob/ada2012/ada/src/rdf-auxiliary-convert.adb

It requires not only Interfaces.C.Strings but also Interfaces.C.Pointers
to make things more confusing.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org