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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada bindings for filesystems
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alb348@gmail.com writes:

> On Friday, September 7, 2012 4:13:42 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> ARM B.3 is all you need, assuming that OS interfaces are in C. It is 2-3
>> API functions you have to import plus some constants to declare. 1-2 hours
>> of work...
>
> Could you please provide a link to ARM B.3? My Google search turnep
> unclear results...

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-B-3.html

> Also, will the output of this tool be usable directly from within Ada
> programs? Or will some external interfaces/dependencies still be
> required? Thanks again.

Tool?

Dmitry is suggesting that you use the documentation of the C API
functions that your OS provides to write Ada declarations of those
functions and any constants used as parameters. Then, you can link your
Ada programs using those bindings with the same OS library that you
would supply to a C program calling the same API.