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-Thread: 103376,61006929d3e14455 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem References: <35f054ea.0410101150.25bec2f5@posting.google.com> <6Joad.8869$UP1.8086@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:56:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.254 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098323788 63.184.104.254 (Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:56:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:56:28 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5557 Date: 2004-10-21T01:56:28+00:00 List-Id: Dave Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:18:58 GMT, Jeffrey Carter > wrote: >> >> In C/++, a pointer is an int is an address. In Ada, they're 3 >> different things. > > But (unlike its predecessor B) a C pointer/address is not just an > int. I meant that a pointer is an int because you can always convert/assign a pointer to an int. -- Jeff Carter "Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence." E. Robert Tisdale 72