Re: Calling C++ from Ada

[Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>]

On Sat, 13 May 2006 21:08:33 +0200, Yves Bailly wrote:
>On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:02:33 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote:
>> Yves Bailly wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use C++ classes from an Ada program. Searching around, I
>>> found some examples, but none implying a non-default constructor.

The SGI company had a tool (for Unix?) that inserted C++ symbols into
GNAT pragmas. Then SGI went bankrupt (at least, inside of USA. I don't
know what the cost was, before and after).

(I happen to now regard wXwindows as seeming less credible than GCC 2.8
Ada over Microsoft MFC of Visual C 6++).

There is a webpage on how Microsoft mangles C++ symbols, here:
    http://www.kegel.com/mangle.html

I am expect to port an eMule using Visual Studio MFC C++ to
MinGW so that it can use the future OpenGNAT for Windows, the modified
GCC (2.x) compiler based on the AdaCore 2002 program. I expect to have
Mr Brukardt doing some of the coding, though he is possibly too busy
anonymizing votes for IBM's Pascal Leroy (eg. AI-302, the C++
containers re-learning class for AdA; but is this too indiscreet?)

I missed out the word "better" in my last message here (re the
Asian Indian, Anath The Boss, CLA grade ... avionics expert).


Craig Carey