Re: Nontrivial examples of C interface with Ada

[Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>]

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> 
> gressett@iglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > Is there an example of a well-done, nontrivial interface to a C
> > library readily available on the web? Examples of communication with
> > C things defined like
> >
(snip)
> 
> I personally find it a pain to use because of the large variety of types
> for the same things, the constant use of error flags instead of
> enumerated types and all the parameters are so C-ish that it doesn't fit
> in with The Ada Way of thinking. (Some of this is just because the
> Win32api is organically grown rather than engineered.) I'd prefer to see
> a "thick" binding that simply hid all of the conversions, error flags,
> etc. so that you had something that looked like Ada rather than
> C-Written-In-Ada. But I suppose there is a need for the thin binding to
> exist.
> 
> MDC
> --
...

The GTKAda binding is a very good example of a relatively thick binding
to 
C code.
-- 
Scott Ingram
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory