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On Jul 24, 6:44=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> Since C does not have arrays, especially 2D ones, you will have some cust=
om
> representation on the C side. It means that examples of bindings (there a=
re
> plenty of) won't help you unless you understand how you describe a
> C-compatible object in Ada.


Thanks for the "warnings". One way that I'm thinking is to write the
elements of the matrix sequentially into a file in Ada, read them into
C, put them into a matrix in C, do the appropriate computations in C
(with the IMSL C library), write the output in C in a file, and
finally importing them back into Ada again for further processing. Of
course, having several read-write operations is not computationally
time-efficient but this is a modest way to get starting. I know C at a
basic level and I'm not not an extensive user.

YC