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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ce5636289df1f84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-08 11:03:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pointer in C & in Ada References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 18:03:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 997293790 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:03:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:03:10 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11630 Date: 2001-08-08T18:03:10+00:00 List-Id: >I generally use System.Address (or a private type derived from it). Remembering of course that a System.Address is not guaranteed to be the same as an access value. Think of mixed memory models on the segmented x86 architecture, where one might have a base and an offset, while the other is strictly an offset with an assumed base.