Re: [Spark] Arrays of Strings

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Matthew Heaney wrote in message
<1ec946d1.0304090942.3106b4e4@posting.google.com>...
>Interestingly, the chars_ptr_array declared in RM95 B.3.1 (6) does not
>declare its component subtype as aliased, nor is the array marked as
>begin C-compatible.  This seems wrong to me, which is why I declared
>the chars_ptr_array type myself, as above.

This has come up before. See AI-276. (Personally, I think that type
ought to be deleted, as it has nothing to do with the Ada Strings
package - having no operations - and it is easily written by any
programmer that needs it. But that's too radical.)

         Randy.