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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: differences between Ada and C in gnat forcing me to use C instead
 of Ada
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:01:30 +0100
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On 2019-03-25 17:46, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 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.

strcpy knows nothing about the output. That is why strncpy to be used 
instead.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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