Re: C interface - Apex/Verdix

[Mark Bennison <mark.bennison@gecm.com.no.spam>]

cgreen@yosemite.atc.com (Christopher Green) wrote:
>In article <338ce5d2.87925678@news.mhv.net>,
>Paul Van Bellinghen <pvanbell@mhv.net> wrote:
>>Has anyone ever intefaced a C object module with an (Ada83) Ada
>>program in the Rational Apex or Verdix VadsCross environment? I am
>>planning to just include the object module in the compilation view and
>>use the  Pragma Interface (C, c-function-name). Will this work?
>
>You may also need pragma Interface_Name (c-function-name, "actual-name");
>this will account for situations where VADS name-mangling doesn't yield
>the correct name for the C function.
>

Another thing that may be relevant is that you will need ( in 
VadsCross, I haven't used Apex ) to add a WITH directive to the ada.lib 
file ( using a.info -i ) to give the location of your 'C' object code to 
the linker.

Mark.
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