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On 3/25/19 3:20 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2019-03-25 15:09, matthewbrentmccarty@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>        devices :  aliased  Device_Array (1..5);
>>        Status := sane_sane_h.sane_get_devices (devices(1)'Address, 
>> sane_sane_h.SANE_Bool(SANE_TRUE));
> 
> How the callee should know the length of the output array?

The same strcpy does.

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