From: "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Modes (was unbounded_string)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:40:39 GMT
Date: 2003-10-13T09:40:39+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:06:00 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Since GNAT.OS_Lib.Getenv returns type String_Access, you have to use
> >String_Access if you want to use Getenv. But note the description of
> >Getenv from GNAT.OS_Lib:
> >
> >-- Get the value of the environment variable. Returns an access
> >-- to the empty string if the environment variable does not exist
> >-- or has an explicit null value (in some operating systems these
> >-- are distinct cases, in others they are not; this interface
> >-- abstracts away that difference. The argument is allocated on
> >-- the heap (even in the null case), and needs to be freed explicitly
> >-- when no longer needed to avoid memory leaks.
>
> Awful, I didn't expected that from ACT. The design above is definitely
> not Ada's idiom.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Dmitry Kazakov
> www.dmitry-kazakov.de
Perhaps as in many OS it's the only way as the OS (probably written in C or
some other language simply returns it this way?
--
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20031010074015.761204C40C1@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2003-10-10 8:27 ` Modes (was unbounded_string) Andrew Carroll
2003-10-10 9:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-11 7:16 ` Simon Wright
2003-10-13 9:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-10 15:18 ` Stephen Leake
2003-10-10 16:21 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-14 18:47 ` Craig Carey
2003-10-10 19:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-10-13 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-13 9:40 ` Stephane Richard [this message]
2003-10-13 10:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-10-15 2:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-15 3:36 ` Jeff C,
2003-10-16 16:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
[not found] <20031010094017.680474C40C1@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2003-10-10 10:58 ` Andrew Carroll
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