From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Ada as glue ? logical approach ?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:26:07 +0000
Date: 2012-01-29T08:26:07+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 9e698480-636a-419f-9b50-400b322de8d4@dp8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com
Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:
> I have been studying ada for sometime now but I have no experience
> coding with it.
Get coding then! It won't hurt (much).
> Someone could write a full binding for a library but could someone
> also not just use the import pragma to "grab onto" the existing C
> library APIs?
>
> This would be a bit like ctypes in Python correct ? Are other list
> members writing their own 'as needed' partial bindings? Is this a
> logical approach? -Patrick
Quite a few of the "full bindings" are in fact partial; there's often a
lot of the full API that isn't immediately necessary. For example, in my
Ada 2005 Math Extensions[1], I didn't bother with the parts of LAPACK
and BLAS that deal with matrices of special forms, for example an "upper
Hessenberg", whatever that is (see [2] Table 2.1 for the full set).
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnat-math-extn/
[2] http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node24.html
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2012-01-29 4:53 Ada as glue ? logical approach ? Patrick
2012-01-29 8:26 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2012-01-29 9:46 ` mockturtle
2012-01-29 13:10 ` Brian Drummond
2012-01-29 13:57 ` Patrick
2012-01-29 16:51 ` mockturtle
2012-01-30 0:26 ` Patrick
2012-02-01 2:19 ` BrianG
2012-02-01 4:07 ` Patrick
2012-02-01 6:05 ` tmoran
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