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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing pointers to pointers in Ada
Date: 1996/09/09
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>>>>> "Vasilios" == Vasilios Tourloupis
>>>>> <vasilios@insect.sd.monash.edu.au> writes:

Vasilios> Dear Ada users, As the title suggests, how would I go about
Vasilios> implementing pointers to pointers in Ada?

Vasilios> For example, I have declared the following variable in C:
Vasilios>     unsigned **a;
Vasilios> How would this be expressed in Ada terms?

If you have a type called Unsigned, you may do (note the need of
declaring new types):

  type Unsigned_Access is access all Unsigned;
  type Unsigned_Access_Access is access all Unsigned_Access;

  A : aliased Unsigned_Access_Access;

 Sam
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