Re: Interfacing to C: big structures

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"Alex R. Mosteo" <amosteo@unizar.es> writes:

> 2. Create an Ada type as
>
> type S is new Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Array
>                 (1 .. Stream_Offset (Size_Of_S));
> pragma Pack (S); -- Not sure if this is even needed.
>
> Note that this type gets its size at elaboration time, and thus this is
> what fixes this type if the C corresponding struct changes.

Nice trick.

But I think you need to make sure the alignment is correct.

- Bob