mixing Ada with C++

mixing Ada with C++

[James Lee]

I'm an electrical engineering student who is new to Ada.  I speciallize in
signal and systems.  Since I write prgrams to solve engineering problems,
I must be able to access Fortran libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel.

Unfortunately all my fellow students are using C++ for speed, compactness, 
and irreadability. :)  Here is the problem:  Is Ada 9x able to access
object putout by C++, without doing some massive programming?

Also, after reading this news group for while, I stumbled upon some article
that address the problem of Ada being able to manipulate Fortran arrays
directly.  I'm not quite sure if I understand the problem.  I would appreciate
if someone would clarify the question.  Thank you.


James Lee

SUNY@Buffalo


This is my sig. file... I'm too lazy to write one...
I'll finish writing one when we pay off the National Defficit...

Re: mixing Ada with C++

[Cyrille Comar]

jameslee@acsu.buffalo.edu (James Lee) writes:

: Unfortunately all my fellow students are using C++ for speed, compactness, 
: and irreadability. :)  Here is the problem:  Is Ada 9x able to access
: object putout by C++, without doing some massive programming?

GNAT offers a low-level interface to C++. If you just want to access C++
objects this is very simple, if you want to inherit from C++ classes and
dispatch across languages this is not VERY hard but you must know what you are
doing... Take a look at the examples distributed with GNAT, there is a test
program that works with G++. You can also find some preliminary documentation
in pub/gnat/docs (ftp cs.nyu.edu)
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