Calling Ada from C and vice versa...

[enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!kth.se!octopus.tds.kth.se!ao@ucbvax.Berk eley.EDU (Anders Ohlsson)]

	Hi!

	Does anybody have a solution to this problem?

	I'm working on a project where multiple programs written in
	Ada and C send messages to each other.

	All parties that wish to be able to receive messages registers
	at the post office by calling a C function (RegisterMessageHandler)
	and supplies a pointer to a function, which is to be executed
	upon receipt of a message.

	I.e., when a message is sent from A to B, the post office
	executes B's message handler.

	Now, the scenario is this:

	1. The post office is running as a separate server process (written
	   in C).

	2. One of the programs that receive messages is written in Ada.

	Everything works OK if I only manipulate LOCAL data of the message
	handler (written in Ada).

	The problem occurs when I try to manipulate GLOBAL data, e.g. append
	something to a linked list or print global strings...

	This causes my Ada system to crash with:

		Exception raised with improper context
		program aborted

	My compiler is Alsys Ada 5.5.1 and my machine is a SPARCstation IPX
	running SunOS 4.1.x.

	My questions is:

	Why can't the message handler use global data declared in the same
	subprogram when it is invoked by dereferencing a pointer to function
	in C? It seems like Ada gets confused and does not know where it's
	global data is anymore...



				Any help is greatly appreciated!
				
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						Regards,

							Anders Ohlsson