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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Interfacing to C without dynamic memory
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:13:59 -0500
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> My first ideas are:
> 1. Extract sizeof(T) at C level.
> 2. In Ada, create appropriately aligned:
>
> type T is System.Storage_Array (1 .. Size_Of_T);
> for T'Alignment use Appropriate_Alignment_Value;

Makes sense.  You could write a C program that #include's
the relevant .h file, and prints out an Ada package
spec containing the above Ada code.  You could run
this as part of your build scripts.

- Bob