Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter

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

In article <5hrh21$2k$1@gail.ripco.com> xanadu@ripco.com (Jennifer E. Lee) writes:

 > The HP Broadband Systems (HPBS) only recognizes ANSI C and TTCN 
 > (Tree & Tabular Combined Notation) object codes.
 > Our clients want us to integrate their Ada95 OO code with our C codes 
 > which is almost impossible IMHO because C is not an OO language.
 > How do we convert Ada's _package_, TEXT_IO, .... to HP's C function?
 > The HPBS is a validation device for us to emulate our clients'
 > SDH/SONNET/ATM networks.

  Have you looked at Annex B?  It looks to me as if what you are
trying to do here is interface to a low-level comm package.  Get the
Intermetrics C to Ada converter for the header files or just convert
by hand, then build whatever higher level glue code you may need in
Ada.

  But it sounds like what you really want is for HP or ACT (email to
sales@gnat.com) to support the Ada distributed systems annex on top of
HPBS.  This would allow you to write completely in Ada and leave the
low level marshalling and unmarshalling of data to the distribution
the provided code.

  Of course you could just get the source and modify it yourself, but
I get the impression that this is not something you want to do.

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					Robert I. Eachus

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