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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing C macro constants from Ada95
Date: 1999/04/12
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In article <7eqoj2$r27$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
  mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) wrote:
> That I think is the main reason why people are interested
> in POSIX.5, which provides all the necessary constants at
> least for this important API.

Sure, and people are definitely interested in POSIX.5,
which is why we put effort into implementing it, and indeed
so far there is no demand from customers for a thin binding
to corresponding stuff except in limited cases (e.g.
sockets).

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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