Re: trying to call HDF5 from ada -- problems with constants

[Christopher Broeg <broeg@astro.uni-jena.de~>]

Brian Catlin wrote:
> "Christopher Broeg" <broeg@astro.uni-jena.de~> wrote in message 
> news:cgi4oa$o75$1@fsuj29.rz.uni-jena.de...
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to use HDF5 data format in my ada code. Since there is no ada binding 
>>available (tell me if there is!)
> 
> 
> A simple Google search reveals:
> 
> "Ada 95 bindings for the NCSA hierarchical data format"
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=507581&jmp=references&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM
> 
> I would contact the author (who works at Langley)
> 
>  -Brian
> 

Thank you for your reply. Of course I read the article by B.R. 
Barkstrom. But the binding is no longer available. At first I was 
hesitant to bother the author directly, not wanting to bother him. But I 
will write him an email.

What is the standard way to import C constants that are not "constant" 
from one run to the next, but derived from some "invisible" library in 
the .h files?

Chris