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!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem Date: 22 Oct 2004 06:41:08 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <35f054ea.0410101150.25bec2f5@posting.google.com> <6Joad.8869$UP1.8086@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1098424054 830 62.49.19.209 (22 Oct 2004 05:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:47:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5617 Date: 2004-10-22T06:41:08+01:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > Dave Thompson wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:18:58 GMT, Jeffrey Carter > > 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. I'm pretty sure that on Alphas (this was OSF/1 unix) a pointer was a long (64 bits) while an int was 32 bits .. so, assign away, just don't expect things to work portably for ever! -- Simon Wright 100% Ada, no bugs.