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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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On 26 Lut, 00:26, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Use the Annex B interfacing facilities. The basic idea is to write the C
> types in Ada, add the pragma Convention C to them, and let the Ada compiler
> handle the rest. Is there some reason this doesn't work in this case?

The reason is that I don't care about the internals (data fields and
their layout) of the given structure. The only thing that matters for
me is the set of functions that accept a pointer to "something". I
have problems with mapping this "something" without reverse
engineering it.

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com