Re: Ada (GNAT) and GNU Scientific Library

["Jerry" <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

I tried to use c2ada and it had a problem. I started digging into it
and quickly found myself in over my C-head, but it looked like a minor
problem that could probably be fixed by someone who knows a bit more
than me about C.

I had a brief exchange only a few months ago with a guy who I think was
an author. I've found the e-mail and I'll paste it below and try to
mangle his name and e-mail address a bit.

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From: D e r e k M J o n e s <xxxx>

d  e  k  s  .  .
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 (mangled by Jerry)

Date: June 5, 2006 3:48:46 AM MST
To:
Subject: Re: About your article, Translating C to Ada

Jerry,

> I've just found your article, Translating C to Ada, at http://
> www.knosof.co.uk/ctoa.html, being in need of something to ease the
> work of making an Ada binding for PLplot, which is of course
> written in C. For this particular project I am only translating
> header files.
> I'm wondering what the state of the translator is, and if it might
> be available on unix (actually Macintosh OS X).

The translator exists in design only.  It would probably be possible
to rework the output routines to handle enough to deal with headers.
However, interest has been low and there are always other more pressing
things that keep cropping up.

Thanks for your interest, I will let you know if things change.

--
D e r e k M . J o n e s
Knowledge Software Ltd                      mailto: xxxx
Applications Standards Conformance Testing    http://www.knosof.co.uk


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This is a _very_substantial_ piece of work and should not be lost. I've
learned a bit of C since I last looked at it so maybe sometime I'll
have another go at it.

Jerry

george@gentoo.org wrote:
> Unfortunately I don't know any more than that. I only learned about
> this connection from the very text you cite. Moreover, it looks like
> both projects are now dead - neither of the sites even resolves any
> more. However I just found c2ada source on my hard drive. Apparently I
> managed to find it somewhere some time ago (I only remember searching
> for it about a year ago and not finding..). A quick look into its
> contents shows, that there are some files that I saw in cbind, so the
> claim indeed seems to be valid. However this is all I can say on this
> matter.
>
> George
>
> Jerry wrote:
> > george@gentoo.org wrote:
> > > On a related note, I recently "resurrected" the cbind package.
> >
> > How is cbind related to c2ada at
> > http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Tools/Non-Commercial.html? According
> > to that page, "This tool, released by Intermetrics, is based on cbind
> > (Ada-to-C binding generator), a tool previously made public by Rational
> > Software Corporation."
> > 
> > Jerry