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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Converting pointers to non nul-terminated C "strings" to Ada
  string
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:47:23 +0100
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Yannick Duch�ne wrote:

> A dirty thing which comes into my mind : when you write
>
> procedure memory_data
>       (data   : out CS.chars_ptr;
>        size   : out C.int);
>
> you may doing some assumption about the the compiler's generated
> code.  In my humble opinion, pointers in C declarations should be
> mapped to access types in Ada. There is nothing I know which assert
> that an Ada implementation must use access types to implement out
> parameters.

RM95 B.3(68) comes to mind.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
Ada - the programming language still ahead of its time.