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From: Volkert Barr <barr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT/Interfacing C++/Dispatching
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:47:56 +0100
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Volkert.Barr@freenet.de (Volkert) writes:
> 
> > Hello c.l.a.
> >
> > Is this true, that dispatching works not across
> > languages boundaries when interfacing Ada 95 with C++
> > (using C++ Interface mechanisms of GNAT 3.13p.)?
> 
> I have not done it, and I did not read your code in detail, but
> GNAT/g++ is supposed to allow full inter-operation between Ada tagged
> types and C++ classes. So keep trying!
Yes! Simple interfacing to C++ Classes seems to work well. But when is
comes to polymophism i run into trouble. Polymophism on Ada side works.
But,
dispatching calls starting at the c++ side do not propagate into the Ada
work. 
I think, a C++ class does not know the dispatching table, which i have
to add to an 
Ada tagged type. The c++ work does not know about overriden features
from
the Ada side. 

Expample:

class A {

  void f() {
     this->g(); 
  };  

  virtual void g() {
     // do something
  }
}

 package A_Type is

    -- corresponds to C++ Class A
    type A is tagged 
      record 
        ...
        Vptr : Interfacing.CPP.Vtable_Ptr;
     end record;

    pragma CPP_Class ...
    pragma CPP_Vtable ...

    procedure f (Self : in A'Class);
    pragma Import(CPP, f, ...);

    procedure g (Self: in A);
    pragma CPP_Virtual (g);
    pragma Import(CPP, ...) 
 
  end A_Type;


  -- extends A
  package B_Type is

    type B is new A with ...

    procedure g (Self : in B); -- redefines g of A.

    ...
    
  end B_Type;

  

If i override g() on the Ada side (with a new tagged type B_Type) and
i call f() on an object of Type T_type in the Ada world, i would expect
the call of the overridden g() method (primitive operation of tagged
type B_Type)


BTW: For all C++ virtual declared mothods i follow the gnat convention
to add a prama CPP_Virtual.

With regards,
Volkert

> > <snip>
> 
> --
> -- Stephe

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