From: sarge!sarge!svh@uunet.uu.net (Steven Hovater)
Subject: Re: SunAda question
Date: 22 Jul 93 10:49:42 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <svh.743338182@sarge> (raw)
Egad... who would have thought....
>procedure gethost is
> namelen : integer := 20;
> hostname : string (1..namelen);
> stat : unix.status_code;
>begin
> stat := unix.gethostname(hostname'address,namelen);
> text_io.put_line ("Hostname is " & hostname);
>end gethost;
as an illustration to show that the function indeed modified the in parameter
would turn into such a fracas.
Thanks Dave and Karl for pointing out that I should really have been a little
more careful - yes, I should have. There _are_ much better ways of coding the
above.
I retract the comment I made about portability in my post.
Steve
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1993-07-21 20:52 SunAda question Esther Lumsdon
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