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> <35f054ea.0410121044.bf19fea@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <35f054ea.0410121044.bf19fea@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:23:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.167 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1097630616 63.184.104.167 (Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:23:36 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:23:36 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5120 Date: 2004-10-13T01:23:36+00:00 List-Id: skidmarks wrote: > > A_Access := array'Access > B_Pointer := array(array'First)'Address I realize this is conceptual, not code, but this is not Ada-83 like. In Ada 95, you can declare an access type to have convention C: type Str_Ptr is access all String; pragma Convention (C, Str_Ptr); Str_Ptr will be a pointer in the C sense. In Ada 83, System.Address and 'Address is usually appropriate. -- Jeff Carter "My legs are gray, my ears are gnarled, my eyes are old and bent." Monty Python's Life of Brian 81