Re: Ada equivalent for C-pointer?

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Alfred Hilscher <SPAM@alfred-hilscher.de> writes:
[...]
> Thanks to all of you. What I do is to write some bindings for a windows
> dll. The C-header looks like this: int function (far *xy); As Nick
> stated, in the flat model of windows a "far" and a "near" would be the
> same. So I will declare it as an "access" type (ev. with the "pragma
> Convention (C, C_Pointer);").

Are you sure the C declaration looks like

    int function(far *xy);

?  That's a syntax error even for C compilers that support "far"
pointers.  It might be something like

    int function(int far *xy);

Since (as I understand it) "far" doesn't mean anything on modern
systems, it's quite likely that your C compiler either ignores the
"far" keyword or a header "#define"s it as nothing.

See what your C compiler's documentation says about "far" pointers.

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