From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bae62a394f8c9d83 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed2.scan-plus.net!news.germany.com!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!newsfeed.atman.pl!not-for-mail From: Szymon Guz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada binding Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:56:32 +0100 Organization: ATMAN Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: staticline10528.toya.net.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: node1.news.atman.pl 1139500599 17636 85.89.162.21 (9 Feb 2006 15:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@atman.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:56:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2821 Date: 2006-02-09T16:56:32+01:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak napisa=B3(a): > Szymon Guz wrote: >=20 >> how to make an Ada binding for a "C++" class using this C layer ? >=20 > Basically, if the C++ class is not a template, but just plain "classic"= =20 > OO stuff, then you can write a wrapper around it in C, which will still= =20 > be OO, but without the syntax sugar of real class. Something along this= : >=20 > // an existing C++ class: > class MyClass > { > public: > void myFun(); > }; >=20 > // a C wrapper: > extern "C" > void * MyClass_new() > { > return new MyClass; > } >=20 > extern "C" > void MyClass_delete(void *p) > { > delete static_cast(p); > } >=20 > extern "C" > void MyClass_myFun(void *vp) > { > MyClass *mcp =3D static_cast(vp); > mcp->myFun(); > } >=20 > // and so on. >=20 > Depending on the level of isolation that you want to achieve and the=20 > level of type safety that you want to retain, hiding the object behind = > void* might or might not be the best choice, but this is to give you th= e=20 > idea. Above, MyClass_new, MyClass_delete and MyClass_myFun are plain C = > functions (you can extract their declarations to separate header file) = > and you can interface them from just about any sensible language in=20 > existence and from Ada in particular. >=20 >=20 OK, but what about using the class fields : class MyClass { public: int X; int *p_X; } and what about inheriting this from the class in Ada, is it possible ? regards Szymon Guz