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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Calling Ada from C
Message-ID: <1995Mar28.214747.9516@eisner>
Date: 28 Mar 95 21:47:47 -0500
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Date: 1995-03-28T21:47:47-05:00
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In article <3l6j5k$h05@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>, Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> 
>> GNAT certainly allows the main program to be in a language other than C
>> with no restrictions (in fact the main program of the *all* GNAT programs
>> is typically in C, since that's what the binder generates). But you can
>> also have your own explicit main program.
> 
> With NO restrictions? Including tasking? The C program doesn't have to make
> any special calls to elaborate everything?

We have had two examples, both claiming that the respective compilers
did not have such a restriction.  Perhaps it would be more of a service
to list those implementations which _do_ have such a restriction.