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Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem
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From: Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk>
Date: 22 Oct 2004 20:05:31 +0200
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Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:

> Dave Thompson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:18:58 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
> > 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.

You can do that in Ada also. See ARM 3.7.1.(10) and 3.7.1.(13). This
does of course not mean that a value of type Address is an integer
subtype.

- Mark Lorenzen