Re: Taking another spanking.

[Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>]

To fill in from an GNATPro user.

In the recent versions of gnatpro gcc and g++ got a new switch 
"-fdump-ada-spec" that will generate Ada specs from a C or C++ header files.
/Very convenient and it works like a dream when interfacing libraries 
with interfaces specified in the languages C and C++.
/Per

sjw wrote:
> On Jun 4, 1:43 am, a...@anon.org (anon) wrote:
> 
> Are you really just one person, or a collective? Sometimes you're
> sensible, sometimes plain bananas .. this time on the sensible side. I
> wish you'd admit to your real name!
> 
>> But some like you talk that Ada should NEVER go beyond the RM and use
>> Sockets, that is just wrong. Ada like all languages must be able to adapt and
>> handle all devices both physical as well as virtual to be compatible to be used
>> for all applications. Else its the death by limitation of the language.
> 
> Nothing wrong with GNAT.Sockets, use it all the time. But see no need
> to go the .Thin level. If I did, I wouldn't moan at AdaCore for
> changing it.
> 
>> But then again, I think it was you that stated last year that if you rewrote
>> or updated "C2Ada" you would never write the program in Ada!
> 
> c2ada is written in C, with some Python that I haven't had to
> understand yet (and which seem to be related to converting C _bodies_
> to Ada, not a sensible project or one likely to lead to success IMO).
> 
> So I might have said that I would rewrite it in Ada; but now, given
> that AdaCore have announced a conversion facility, I think I'll find
> something more worth while.