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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Victor Porton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Troubles with C strings Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:13:58 +0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: rFX7cZOSaeuGGZI2vwQTaQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.12.4 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21243 Date: 2014-07-26T17:13:58+03:00 List-Id: RM2012 B.3.1: 39 function Value (Item : in chars_ptr; Length : in size_t) return String; 40/1 Equivalent to To_Ada(Value(Item, Length) & nul, Trim_Nul=>True). Isn't the function Value improperly recursively defined through itself?! Please explain. Also: It seems that in Interfaces.C.Strings there is no function which creates an Ada string of specified length from a chars_ptr (without checking for NUL). Addition of such a function would be good, because it can be very fast (on some platforms it can be implemented as memcpy). -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org