> No, Interfaces.C.Extensions is non portable, so almost no Ada code out there > is using it. As I said, existing Ada code is using System.Address all the > time, so requiring any code change in this area is just a non starter. We'd > rather require that people don't use LTO with Ada rather than tell them to > use Interfaces.C.Extensions, that would be more constructive :-)
I see, too bad that Interfaces.C doesn't define something along these lines. In practice I'm not sure it's a big issue, because presumably it's essentially used to interface the C library and AFAIK we don't LTO the C library (yet). And I presume that, if people start interfacing in Ada with C code doing heavy pointer manipulation, we can also point them to Interfaces.C.Pointers. :-) -- Eric Botcazou
