Re: Help with Copying Shared Memory to Local

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message news:<3CED51CF.39E26FC6@acm.org>...

> There's about a 9 out of 10 chance that this system does not need to be
> dealing with addresses; that this way of doing things was dreamed up by
> a C person who lacked the necessary familiarity with Ada 83 to be
> competent to create this specification. I have seen this kind of misuse
> of the language far too many times for it to be likely that this case is
> different.

OK, so we await your Ada 83 solution, given this criticism

> A : Storage_Array (1 .. Storage_Length);
> for A'Address use Destination;
> pragma Import (Ada, A);
> 
> B : Storage_Array (1 .. Storage_Length);
> for B'Address use Source;
> pragma Import (Ada, B);

OUCH! This is erroneous code in Ada 83, so surely you are not saying that
an Ada 83 programmer should have used this approach?