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From: Francesco PIRANEO GIULIANO <liste.fpiraneo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Ada and linux: pragma import how to
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
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Gentleman,

for an application that want to drive the linux framebuffer I'm trying
to import the open and ioctl C functions to be used with Ada.

I'm quite new in that language so I need some detailed information on
how to pass and retrieve arguments / results from imported functions /
procedures and well understand differences between import function and
import _valued_ function.

Can you provide me some documentation source about these two topics?
Does anyone can provide me books reference about using Ada with Linux?
I've found the "Big book of linux ada programming" and obviously the
Ada reference manual but I need something with a more practical
approach to understand...

Thank you very much!
Francesco