Re: Unchecked_Union record inside an other record - trouble

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 08/08/2014 12:21 PM, Per Sandberg wrote:
> You shall not try to write interface code by hand you shall use the compiler
>      gcc -c -fdump-ada-spec <more arguments and files>
> see GNAT Users guide.
>
> Since humans makes a heap load of errors and erronous asumptions when they try
> to translate the contents of a .h file to an .ads file, the compiler does a much
> better job.

While I agree with you in general, the results of -fdump-ada-spec need to be 
manually massaged since it produces non-portable, compiler-dependent code, such 
as using Address for C pointers. It may also be preferable to create a binding 
by hand if you only want a small subset of a large header.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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