Re: Calling Ada from C

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <1995Mar24.121422.9469@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software) writes:

 > I am not convinced that is true for "all Ada compilers".  I cannot think
 > of a reason why it should be true for DEC Ada, and looking at the Run-Time
 > Reference Manual for running on VMS, I do not see such a restriction in
 > the chapter on mixed language programming. (The Run-Time library for
 > DEC Ada is included by the linker, regardless of the language for the
 > main program.)

 > If anyone knows of a failure of this sort for DEC Ada running on VMS,
 > I would be interested to hear about it.

   DEC made the decision to build the DEC Ada run-time into VMS, so
that Ada programs do not pay a large penalty and can be freely mixed
with other DEC supported languages.  They might have decided to do it
otherwise had they no already integrated PL/I in the same way.

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					Robert I. Eachus

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