Re: Mixed languages and frustration.

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com>]

>>>>> "SL" == Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

    SL> Freejack <user@nospam.net> writes:
    >> Alright, so I'm sitting here trying to juggle between C pointers and Ada
    >> access types/allocators, with moderate success. And I start wondering to
    >> myself "How many people on comp.lang.ada nearly blow a fuse when doing
    >> the same thing?"

    SL> I try to avoid code in C at all costs.

    SL> When I do need to pass pointers to C, I just use 'Address on the Ada
    SL> side. It's not guarantteed portable, but neither is the C code, so
    SL> it's good enough. And it's far easier to get right, and usually more
    SL> efficient, than messing with Interfaces.C pointer stuff.

    SL> -- 
    SL> -- Stephe

Yes. And in the same spirit, to go in the opposite direction, if you
have got a C pointer, just declare an Ada object and use an address
rep clause to put it where the pointer points. Same caveats apply.

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