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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Need a way to convert a constant to a variable
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 18:44:58 +0200
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On 2017-08-05 17:11, Victor Porton wrote:

> I do use char_array for interfacing with C.

You should probably reconsider it. It works only for C functions that do 
not expect null as a value, do not return strings allocated outside Ada, 
do not deallocate strings passed into.

> It is a pity that I need to reimplement Indefinite_Holders for this task.

Why re-implement? It has different purpose.

I never used it because of its semantics. I use a different approach, 
maybe because it was Ada 95 when first implemented. Anyway, it works 
better to me. I don't like the overhead of creating messy temporary 
controlled helper types.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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