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cracks open the "REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE Ada(r) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE" looks like Ada83 specification has address clause though, which can effectively be used
by modshatereality 3y ago
cracks open the "REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE Ada(r) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE"
looks like Ada83 specification has address clause though, which can effectively be used as a pointer when combined with System.Address / 'Address attribute.
Also has access type, but you can't pass access type around all willy-nilly-like without unchecked_access (added in 95?).
C pointers are more flexible though, that much is true.
edit, almost forgot: the main downside of Ada < 95 is you don't get function pointers, or import/export pragma