Re: Interfacing enums with C

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> writes:

> On 2014-08-17 15:48, Victor Porton wrote:
>
>>> http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-B-1.html 14/3 - 18
>>> does not say that enumeration types are eligible for convention C.
>>>
>>> So, in my opinion, RM does not require the following code to be
>>> compilable:
>>>
>>>    type Option_Type is (A, B)
>>>       with Convention => C;
>>>
>>>> And your first interfacing convention is much better. IMO.
>> 
>> BTW, I could propose enumeration type to be eligible for Convention C
>> in the next version of Ada RM!
>
> FWIW, GNAT does allow 'Convention => C' for enumeration types. So
> Simon's suggestion should work with GNAT if you are willing to make
> use of a GNAT extension.

Not sure it's precisely an _extension_ so much as a taking-up of an
implementation permission.