From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Keeping Ada and C data structures in sync
Date: 1999/05/23
Date: 1999-05-23T04:33:54+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37478542.9DF99057@Botton.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn7ket1m.35r.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk
Actually you could design the structures in MS IDL now and use my
prototype COM binding generator to do it. MIDL would generate the C and
TLB file and the BindCOM would generate the Ada Spec from the tlb.
(http://www.adapower.com/com)
David Botton
Aidan Skinner wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 May 1999 18:04:01 GMT, Fred Roeber <froeber@bbn.com> wrote:
>
> >- using some sort of IDL with the appropriate compilers to derive
> > C and Ada versions of the structure definitions from the common
> > input language
>
> This could be a good opportunity to investigate CORBA.
>
> - Aidan (who thinks CORBA has the potential to be ridiculously useful,
> but wishes the IDL wasn't quite so C-like, as he hates parenthesis)
> --
> http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/
> Real men whistle ed commands at 300 baud into a can.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-21 0:00 Keeping Ada and C data structures in sync Fred Roeber
1999-05-21 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-05-23 0:00 ` David Botton [this message]
1999-05-23 0:00 ` Bob
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-24 0:00 ` David Botton
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