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From: smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize)
Subject: Re: Can Ada95 interface with C++?
Date: 1997/02/20
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In article <tx1bu9rp8sr.fsf@cygnus.com>,
Ken Raeburn  <raeburn@cygnus.com> wrote:
>People have been saying "yes you can do it", but I'm wondering how
>it's done, since Annex B only talks about C, COBOL, and Fortran.
>...Or can Ada interface with
>"real" C++ code? ...
>But is it possible (or feasible) to make compatible those constructs
>that might directly correlate between the languages?

It is apparently both possible and feasible, since (I understand)
GNAT does it.  However, as you noted, it is not in Annex B, so it
is not a standard item.  It is vendor-dependent.

(There wasn't an ISO standard for C++ when Ada95 was standardized.
It would have been problematic to define a standard interface to an
unstandardized language.)

Samuel Mize