Re: Importing C structs?

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>]

"Freejack" <freejack@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.07.31.07.52.36.94842.845@nospam.net...
> So I'm assuming I could just use an Ada enumerated type. (It compiles when
I
> do this, but it fails at runtime.)

Note that the first underlying value is '1' not '0' and you should still
add a 'pragma Convention' to it.


> The second hurdle I'll need to jump is creating a suitable Ada
> replacement for this buttload of defines that occur after the DBTYPE
> declaration.
>
> /*
>  * DB access method and cursor operation values.  Each value is an
operation
>  * code to which additional bit flags are added.
>  */
> #define DB_AFTER 1 /* c_put() */
[snip]
> #define DB_WRITELOCK 34 /* cursor() (internal) */
>
> But one step at a time.
>
> Hooking into glibc is cake, but this is something else entirely. Heh.
>
> Any suggestions?

Get a C->Ada converter! c2ada springs to mind
http://www.averstar.com/~stt/bindings/c2ada/c2ada.html