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From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: LRM on passing data *from* C
Date: 1999/05/22
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dennison@telepath.com wrote:


" All of the implementation advice in LRM B.3 (63-75) refers to how data
  is passed *to* C. I'm curious if this advice was also meant to apply to
  how data is passed *from* C when a C function calls an Ada subprogram.
  
  I'm in a situation where the a compiler may not have followed the
  advice. But we are calling Ada from C, so technicly the advice is not
  applicable..."


The Ada language can't say anything about how C compilers should
operate. For this you have to look to the C language standard.

For your particular application you'll have to examine the C calling
sequence for your particular compiler, and fiddle about with the Ada
code to make it match.


Dale