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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:43:13 +0200
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Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:

> That's not a big problem. Usually these libs have tons and tons of
> functions of which you need only a handful in your app. Writing an Ada
> binding for these is easy. 

I forgot to mention you will encounter funny things in these libs from
our C friends like 'unsigned int func()' which return negative values
as error codes or functions like func(char* c) which write to the
character array *c without any implied or explicit knowledge about the
buffer size. 

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