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From: tfrancis@wpi.wpi.edu (Krishan M Nainani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: From C to Ada
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Date: 4 Jul 89 19:03:54 GMT
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Hi,


	In converting some C code to Ada I came across a difficulty.
	In C, I pass the address of a structure (any structure) to a 
	routine that doesn't care what the structure is. The structure
	is defined in this higher-level program which contains the 
	procedure call. For example :


	struct stype { int a,b,c; float d,e,f; } a_struct;

	x = func_name(&a_struct);

	/* BTW, in "func_name" I store the structure contents in 
	bytes by casting (char *). */

	In designing the low-level routine (in which this function
	is encoded), I was wondering if I could pass the address of
	a structure as I do above in C.

	If not, then I would have to use a generic package with a
	private parameter.

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	Also, thanks to everyone who sent me replied to my last
	mail message regarding questions on C -> Ada.
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Krishan Nainani.	reply-to:	tfrancis@wpi.wpi.edu
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