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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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"Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net> writes:

> Seems Ada always passes records via C pointers. So, the above
> doesn't work. Surely, there's a way!  Or do I need a C wrapper for
> my Ada wrapper ;-(

This is a bug in the Ada 95 language, which, I must admit, is partly my
fault.  It has since been "fixed" by adding pragma C_Pass_By_Copy.
See AI-131.  This AI is approved by WG9, and is part of Corrigendum 1.

Perhaps "fixed" is an overstatement.  The bug has been patched with a
kludgy pragma.

- Bob