-- Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -- the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or -- (at your option) any later version. -- -- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the -- GNU General Public License for more details. -- -- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -- along with this program. If not, see . with Pck; use Pck; procedure Foo is type String_Access is access String; String_P : String_Access := new String'("Hello"); Null_String : String_Access := null; -- Same situation, but constrained array. type Little_Array is array (1 .. 10) of Integer; type Little_Array_Ptr is access all Little_Array; Arr_Ptr: Little_Array_Ptr := new Little_Array'(21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30); begin Do_Nothing (String_P'Address); -- STOP Do_Nothing (Null_String'Address); Do_Nothing (Arr_Ptr'Address); end Foo;