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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Coding access to a C's pointer - pointer
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 17:50:09 +0100
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On 06/06/2020 17:23, Bob Goddard wrote:
> I'm trying to shoehorn net-snmp into an Ada conversion and I've hit a roadblock.
> 
> snmp_synch_response requires a pointer to a pointer:
> snmp_synch_response(netsnmp_session *, netsnmp_pdu *, netsnmp_pdu **)
> 
> Just how the heck do you code that? You can't just declare a System.Address.
> 
> Would I need to drop into C and handle it there?

Yup, C's pointer crap is horrible in Ada.

Essentially, you need to create your types netsnmp_session and netsnmp_pdu.

Let's assume your package name is SNMP.

type Session is null record with
  Convention => C; -- You may has this as an actual full record for al I
know.

You can probably get away with * parameters as "in out" parameters in
the Ada function.

You can do ** by creating a C convention access type to PDU and then
another to that.