[Bug ada/48835] Porting GNAT to GNU/Linux/m68k

[ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48835

--- Comment #40 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-17 22:21:20 UTC ---
> I’d rather see the System.Address type being made a C pointer type,
> globally, in the first place. Since I don’t speak Ada, I can’t do
> it “the right way”. But what prevents us from changing Char_Ptr in
> +   type Char_Ptr is access all Character;
> +   pragma Convention (C, Char_Ptr);
> +   pragma No_Strict_Aliasing (Char_Ptr);
> to System.Address, replacing the previous “opaque” definition?

See the first part of comment #11.  Ada doesn't like pointers very much.