From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.banetele.no!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!news.otenet.gr!news.grnet.gr!newsfd02.forthnet.gr!not-for-mail From: Ioannis Vranos Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:46:55 +0200 Organization: FORTHnet S.A., Atthidon 4, GR-17671 Kalithea, Greece, Tel: +30 2109559000, Fax: +30 2109559333, url: http://www.forthnet.gr Message-ID: <1110980817.650794@athnrd02> References: <1110059861.560004@athnrd02> <1110266099.441421.179290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1110332933.587110.260410@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1110390097.532139.43430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <422f3808$0$30165$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <1110409958.685759.249420@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <15SdnYvJ0_x3Vq3fRVn-3Q@megapath.net> <1110522060.091940.178510@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1110556346.841594.212520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <4952804.Myubg7stsI@linux1.krischik.com> <1462853.JgxLXPrZ7W@linux1.krischik.com> <1110831270.911813.215820@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2484756.KTycvJxKQH@linux1.krischik.com> <1110907090.268126.101030@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <423811a9$0$26546$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1110977781.680781@athnrd02> NNTP-Posting-Host: athnrd02.forthnet.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: athprx02.forthnet.gr 1110980817 25703 193.92.150.73 (16 Mar 2005 13:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@forthnet.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:46:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: newsfd02!unknown@ppp16-adsl-209.ath.forthnet.gr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9488 comp.lang.c++:45950 comp.realtime:1535 comp.software-eng:5117 Date: 2005-03-16T15:46:55+02:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > In some area you need to use some call to the OS (in C or C++) and you also > need some call to the OS lib to adjust the behavior across paltforms to have > the same semantics on all implementaton (read on different OS) of the > runtime. This is true for the distributed systems annex for example. > > string processing, linear algebra support, information systems can be built > in plain Ada. That's nice. > Interface to other languages can't, you need support in the compiler. > > pragma Import (C, My_Routine); > > The semantic behind this pragma must be defined somewhere. > > So as you see it really depends on the nature of the library. I had Ada template library in mind as also as "information systems ("money computing"), string processing, Ada subsetting definitions (what's this?)" from those mentioned. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys