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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: LRM on passing data *from* C
Date: 1999/05/22
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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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