Re: Linking Ada to C++ Overloaded Functions and Methods

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 4:07:38 PM UTC-4, Ron Wills wrote:
> On Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 1:05:24 PM UTC-6, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> > 
> > I would try to change the pragma Imports into aspects, something like this:
> > 
> > procedure draw_box (....)
> > with Import,
> >       Convention => CPP,
> >       Link_Name => "_ZNK9Fl_Widget8draw_boxE10Fl_Boxtypej";
> 
> That worked perfectly! Thanks!
> 

One gotcha that you may already be aware of, but just bit me today is
that if you have overloaded functions in a base class, but don't override
all of them in an extension class, you will get "undefined" errors when
calling the versions that are not overridden.  See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1628768/why-does-an-overridden-function-in-the-derived-class-hide-other-overloads-of-the

I was trying out Niklas' suggestion in my ada/cpp scratch space and had it
happen because I extended the ada tagged type and didn't override all of
the imports.