Re: Accessing C macro constants from Ada95

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>]

In article <slrn7h41up.1cm.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>,
  aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) wrote:
> OTOH this is very definately a hack (although it does
> mean you have the start of a proper binding to whatever)
> and something that should have
> been considered in the language design process. :(

What makes you think it wasn't?

Just because you don't see a solution to the problem
you have in mind does not mean it was not considered.

The current definitions in the RM for interface to C are
what we decided were the appropriate level, and note that
even most of these are implementation advice, rather than
requirements, because it is VERY difficult to fashion
requirements in this area, due to the huge variance in
C compiler technologies with which one might want to
interface.

In fact binding generators like C2Ada (or the much more
powerful SGI binding generator) are *exactly* the kind of
tools that were envisioned during the design process as
being *the* appropriate way to solve this problem.

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