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From: guerby@gnat.com (Laurent Guerby)
Subject: Re: [Q]: arrays into mmap'ed memory
Date: 1996/08/31
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Date: 1996-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
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Norman> [...] In Ada 95, another approach is to declare a constrained array
Norman> type, declare an access type pointing to values of that array
Norman> type, and use an instance of
Norman> System.Address_To_Access_Conversions to convert the address to
Norman> an access value A. [...]

   Putting it all together with your comment on access to constrained
array, you can simply import mmap directly as returning the Ada access
type (using one mmap per acces type) and skip the System.Address
stage.

-- 
Laurent Guerby <guerby@gnat.com>, Team Ada.
   "Use the Source, Luke. The Source will be with you, always (GPL)."