Re: New to ada, a few questions

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

akhar wrote:
>>* Ada provides calling conventions and several useful conversions
>>   for calling functions compiled in C. You cannot use stdio.h in Ada.
>>   Ada does not understand C source syntax, and Ada has no standard
>>   preprocessor.
> 
> this means I have to link to  a DLL ?

no, you can write a binding to stdio functions, import them then link 
the object file in.  How to do the link depends on the compilers 
involved, so you'd need to read the docs.

You don't have to use stdio though, Ada has it's own io functions which 
are usually just as good.

Try the lovelace tutorial, it's a nice introduction for someone who's 
already programmed before!  You can find it via http://www.adapower.com


Chris