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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [Spark] Arrays of Strings
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:06:57 -0500
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Matthew Heaney wrote in message
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>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.