From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Ada] Ease interface with builtins that returns void *
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C40620AF-F10D-41B7-83AE-0ACB62FA23B9@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5004305A.9050703@free.fr>
On Jul 16, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Duncan Sands wrote:
> PS: That said, I have to admit that using void* for builtins does cover the
> most important cases.
Agreed. But I still think that these are two very different issues:
* Doing implicit conversion to void * for builtins is just a convenient way for interfacing with builtins.
* Using void * for System.Address shouldn't have any immediate advantage for users, but would be a better match for the representation.
Tristan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-16 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-16 13:11 Arnaud Charlet
2012-07-16 13:16 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 13:18 ` Tristan Gingold
2012-07-16 13:24 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 13:52 ` Tristan Gingold
2012-07-16 13:58 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 14:31 ` Tristan Gingold
2012-07-16 14:36 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 14:42 ` Tristan Gingold
2012-07-16 14:52 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 15:17 ` Duncan Sands
2012-07-16 15:26 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2012-07-16 16:22 ` Eric Botcazou
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