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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first.
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:32:10 +0000
Date: 2010-03-09T20:32:10+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pr3ds0c5.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns9D366401449ABWarrensBlatherings@188.40.43.213

Warren Gay <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:

> Another approach might be to create a "binding translator". 
> Feed a C/C++ preprocessed output into the translator and 
> crank out some ugly but functional package(s).

c2ada and SWIG are two projects in this area. I wouldn't recommend c2ada
(although I am at present a developer), because at some point before the
migration to Sourceforge someone had the grand idea of translating C
bodies as well as headers, but failed to carry it through. Haven't used
SWIG.

As Jacob says, GNAT includes this ability. As I recall, the generated
code will be OS-specific; provided the original headers were reasonably
sane this should be OK.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03 16:19 Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first John McCabe
2010-03-03 18:22 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-03 20:09   ` John McCabe
2010-03-03 21:00     ` Simon Wright
2010-03-03 18:58 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-03-03 20:17   ` John McCabe
2010-03-04  6:22     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-03-04 11:39       ` John McCabe
2010-03-09 14:49         ` Warren Gay
2010-03-09 15:33           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-03-09 20:22           ` jonathan
2010-03-09 21:57             ` Charmed Snark
2010-03-09 22:54               ` jonathan
2010-03-10 17:46                 ` Charmed Snark
2010-03-10 19:12                   ` jonathan
2010-03-10 20:41                     ` Simon Wright
2010-03-10 21:00                       ` Pascal Obry
2010-03-09 20:32           ` Simon Wright [this message]
2010-03-10  6:42           ` J-P. Rosen
2010-03-03 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-03-03 20:38   ` John McCabe
2010-03-03 20:56     ` Simon Wright
2010-03-03 21:00       ` John McCabe
2010-03-03 21:10         ` John McCabe
2010-03-04  6:39         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-03-03 21:35       ` tmoran
2010-03-04  6:43         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-03-03 22:20     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-03-03 19:52 ` Gautier write-only
2010-03-03 20:57   ` John McCabe
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