From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing C macro constants from Ada95
Date: 1999/04/12
Date: 1999-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7erp9i$o40$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7eqoj2$r27$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk
In article <7eqoj2$r27$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) wrote:
> Ada does indeed have nice facilities to access functions
> and variables in C object files, but what has been
> completely forgotten is that
> under C, traditionally a very significant part of the API
> comes in the form of numeric macro constants defined in
> *.h files.
Note incidentally that there is nothing to stop a given
compiler from implementing:
x : constant Int;
pragma Import (C, X, "header.h/X");
or somesuch, but I see no practical way at all to
standardize such a beast as part of the Ada standard.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-07 0:00 Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Bruce MacDonald
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-09 0:00 ` me
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` bill_
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Mich
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` OpenToken project announcement dennison
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Harry Tanovich
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` mike
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Accessing C macro constants from Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Bruce MacDonald
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Buz Cory
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
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