Re: linking with C++

[Justin Braach <fxhunter@cs.montana.edu>]

Martin Klang wrote:
> 
> lately i've been trying out ADA, and even though it's not by a long way as
> esthetically pleasing as C++, i must confess it's a pretty useful little
> language.
> 
Heh... little... Maybe for an elephant.

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>
> i cannot link to C++ with gnatlink.
> 
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> 
> it seems to have no importance in this example whether i use pragma C or CPP
> (what is the difference anyhow?)
> 
> comparing c.o and cc.o yields that g++ somewhere along the line renamned the
> c_test-function to c_test__Fv. Why???

That has to do with C++'s wonderful name mangling stuff.  Don't ask,
'cause I
don't know.  Anyhow if you look in any Standard C header file, (not
C++), you 
_should_ see at the beginning somewhere a:

#ifdef __cplusplus 
extern "C" {
#endif

or something like it.  That funny little "extern "C"" forces the
compiler not
to screw up the names of functions and variables.  Anyhow, at the
beginnings
of any function prototypes, put that phrase, such as:

extern "C" void foo(void);

This way, you can import the function into Ada, or even C if it's being
compiled
as a separate object.  There is, (I believe), a "C++" version of that
phrase that
should work with the CPP Ada pragma, but I'm not sure, (never tried).  I
had much
fun linking Ada and C/C++ together recently, so I know how good a time
you are 
having.  I won't go on about my thoughts concerning the different
languages, so...
The GNAT manual also describes how to compile Ada modules for C/C++ main
functions.
You might wanna look at that too.

	Hope this helps,
	Justin

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