Re: An Interface question

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

"I'm using an m68k OS (AmigaOS) where system calls expect arguments in
registers, not on the stack as normal convention has it.

I've been reading all Ada95 documents I have but I haven't found a way
to express that convention either for me to access a system call  or
to provide one."


What should be done is that your Ada95 compiler should have a convention
called perhaps System_Call that provides arguments in registers as
required. Then you write

   pragma Import (System_Call, name-of-system-routine);

Obviously there is nothing in the Ada95 documents about this, since it is
highly implementation specific, but a convention such as the one above
is the proper way of handling things.