Re: How to rename a file?

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* David Botton wrote:
>Ada arrays are passed as C arrays do to the import so the use of String is
>valid, we just need to Zero terminate. Ada record types are also passed as
>pointers, which makes life a lot easier.

There is no guarantee AFAIK. Even GCC (not to mention Ada) has different
ways to do this. Therefore I prefer passing Interfaces.C.Strings.char_p over
Interfaces.C.char_array over Standard.String. Especially, if you look how
Standard.String is implemented: As a small struct, passable in registers or
as a pointer to this struct. In the latter case your C-function may assume
the pointer to the memory area containing the string values and the bounds.

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