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From: griest-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Griest)
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Subject: Re: GNAT pragma IMPORT and type conversions
Date: 5 Oct 1994 16:06:27 -0400
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In article <mmcnett.781382539@sparc53.cs.uiuc.edu> mmcnett@sparc53.cs.uiuc.edu (mcnett michael david) writes:
>
>In my current project, I am using the GNAT Ada package and interfacing 
>(pragma IMPORT) with the C language.  I can do the interfaces well and
>send/receive variables, but I am not sure about how the language converts
>from ada types (integer, array, access, etc.) to C types (unsigned long,
>unsigned long long, pointers, etc.).  Also, what about subtypes and 
>enumerated types.  I imagine it looks at the base class in the conversion.
>
>Are there any example programs out there that deal with this problem? If
>so, where are they?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>______________________________________________________________
>Michael McNett               |
>Graduate Student             |
>University of Illinois       |
>mmcnett@uiuc                 |
>
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