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From: Fred Roeber <froeber@bbn.com>
Subject: Keeping Ada and C data structures in sync
Date: 1999/05/21
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I have a question that has probably been asked before (even though I
haven't been able to find any references to). The project I am on has
some code written in C and some in Ada. The two parts of the program
have to communicate by passing data structures. Does anyone know of a
good way to keep data structure declarations consistent between C and
Ada?

We have wondered about several solutions:
- using a translator to derive C include files from Ada
- using some sort of IDL with the appropriate compilers to derive
  C and Ada versions of the structure definitions from the common
  input language

Has anybody had experience/success with either of these approaches. Does
anyone know of some other better method? Thanks for any advice.  Fred
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