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From: dccoote@werple.mira.net.au (David Coote)
Subject: Re: Compiling, binding, and linking an Ada prog. interfaced with C
Date: 1998/08/03
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Robert said:

>Obviously "importing" C macros in full generality would mean inporting
>the full syntax and semantics of C into the parent language, 

Well, you could just support a subset of the language via a macro facility 
interface to Ada. Certainly simple #def's like the one given earlier in the 
thread might be useful for compatibility/porting. As a C programmer for many 
years using Ada for the first time I for one would love to have some decent 
support for conditional compilation. 

David