From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: LRM on passing data *from* C
Date: 1999/05/22
Date: 1999-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7i59j8$tdp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-2205990843320001@r1021c-20.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <dale-2205990843320001@r1021c-20.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:
> The Ada language can't say anything about how C compilers
> should operate. For this you have to look to the C language
> standard.
That's misleading. The Ada standard *does* say that if you
export an Ada procedure with convention C, then it must have
a calling sequence compatible with C (it is up to the
implementor to ensure this)
> For your particular application you'll have to examine the C
> calling sequence for your particular compiler, and fiddle
> about with the Ada
This absolutely shoudl NOT be necessary in a well written
Ada 95 compiler.
> code to make it match.
>
> Dale
>
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1999-05-21 0:00 LRM on passing data *from* C dennison
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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