Re: Data structures

[Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>]

Igor Gilitschenski <Gilitschenski@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:

> I was looking for a tool, which is able to convert C data structures
> (from *.h files) into Ada data structures, but I wasn't successfull yet.
> Do you know where to find one or isn't there such a tool.

There's a tool called c2ada which might do what you want (it can't
most GCC extensions you'll find in typical GNU libc header files,
unfortunately).

Personally, I avoid importing structures from C.  If I have to pass
data structures between C and Ada code, I use special get/set
subprograms (written in C or in Ada, depending on the language used
for the data structure).  In my experience this approach is more
portable and less error-prone, but of course, it introduces a slight
overhead.

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