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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Can Ada95 interface with C++?
Date: 1997/02/24
Date: 1997-02-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.856787034@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Feb12.004642.31821@ocsystems.com


Joel says

<<Currently as I understand it almost no Ada compilers can interface to
"real" C++ methods/types/etc. except for GNAT interfacing to GNU C++.
Plans are in the works for more of the GNAT style interfaces for other
compilers (like ours, though don't hold your breath).>>


No, this is wrong, there is nothing GNU C++ specific about the GNAT
C++ interface, and indeed the most extensive use of this interface is
in conjunction with the SGI Delta C++ compiler, which is not compatible
with G++.

In GNAT, a single runtime unit defines the layout of tagged types and
the dispatching interface, and to interface to a new C++ compiler, only
this one runtime unit must be modified (zero changes are required to the
compiler itself, it is not even necessary to recompile the compiler).






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     [not found]           ` <tx1bu9rp8sr.fsf@cygnus.com>
1997-02-11  0:00             ` Can Ada95 interface with C++? Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-12  0:00               ` Joel VanLaven
1997-02-14  0:00                 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-02-24  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-24  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-02-12  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-20  0:00             ` Samuel Mize
1997-02-21  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <dewar.855234605@merv>
1997-02-18  0:00       ` John Cosby
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