From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.snarked.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Passing a String to a C/C++ Subprogram (Special Case) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:17:44 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <1374ac32-0fb5-4589-a9a5-7740030fd3c6@googlegroups.com> <4bb47482-ccb9-4641-a702-2b2978100ff9@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: IenaDxMXK2hi7fvYcb+MlQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1500 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183629 Date: 2013-10-16T09:17:44+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:02:17 -0700 (PDT), Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote: > Yes, Adam. Thank you. Of course, Annex B is optional anyway. Yes, but you still can work around that: procedure Foo (A : String) is procedure C_Prog (C_String : Address); pragma Import (...); pragma Assert (Character'Size = char'Size); -- sic! begin C_Prog (A (A'First)'Address); P.S. Of course To_C is what you should better use. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de