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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
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Subject: Re: Put_Line for chars_ptr
Date: 23 Jun 2002 13:09:21 GMT
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Sergey Koshcheyev <serko84@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> I have a record (struct) for interfacing uname(). The record looks like
>> type myStruct is record
>>   sysname : chars_ptr;
> I've just looked at the uname man page, and the structure looks like this:
> struct utsname {
>     char sysname[SYS_NMLN];

Oh, thanks a lot. My info-page seems to be wrong on this, they call it
an unbounded char-array, that's why I thought they provide a pointer to
the first character and do the usual stuff like null-terminated strings.

>     sysname : char_array (1 .. SYS_NMLN);

It works fine now, thanks.

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