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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Array access via pointer?
Date: 2000/08/03
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"Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:

> "Michael Carman" <mjcarman@home.com> wrote in message
> news:3988269B.D1DB4EA5@home.com...
...
> > [To further complicate things, I can't use 'Access -- I'm trying to keep
> > my code Ada83 compatible -- I know how to work around it, it's just
> > messier.]

If you want to pass a pointer to an array, pass an access value, not an
address.  If you're stuck with Ada 83, then you will have to allocate
the arrays in the heap, using 'new'.

- Bob