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From: KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET (Karl Keyte)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Calling Ada routines from C programs.
Message-ID: <91049.164842KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
Date: 18 Feb 91 16:14:24 GMT
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The problem with trying to call Ada routines from another language is that
quite frequently the Ada system requires its complete environment in order
to function.  This prevents single routines being called.  A common way
out it to wrap the entire system, say a C program, as an Ada main program
which simply calls the C '_main' in order to start it.  This then allows
the 'C' to call Ada services.

Karl