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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Calling Ada from C (linux/gnat 4.3.2)
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awdorrin <awdorrin@gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to port a program originally written on VxWork to Linux.
> The main program is written in C and spawns new threads and in the new
> threads calls are made to Ada procedures.

I suggest you rewrite the C main in Ada, and avoid all of these
problems. 

Having a C main is probably a good idea in VxWorks, but totally
unnecessary in Linux.

Getting "C threads" and Ada tasks to intermix properly is not trivial.

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