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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada and Motif libraries
Date: 1998/02/13
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In article <x7vk9b01ot8.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk>, Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> writes:
> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
>> There is also an unofficial binding method created by some DEC folks
>> that works for Motif from Ada83 on mutiple platforms.  I have not used
>> but VMS is one of the platforms they tested.  Check on Gatekeeper or
>> the Walnut Creek CD-ROMs.
> 
> As I understand it, this method was the one used to create the
> "official" bindings.
> 
> Unless I missed an update (entirely possible), there's a lot of work
> to do to convert the binding machinery to allow big-endian processors
> (specifically, SPARC).

I thought the method DEC posted on Gatekeeper was supposed to work
with big-endian machines as well, because it read through the C header
files and built a C program to emit the Ada declarations.

Larry Kilgallen