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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Interfacing to C library...
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> > I'm working on building an interface to a C library where most of the
  The Windows bindings available at www.adapower.com do a lot of this.

> Then write another package that is "thicker", and takes advantage
> of Ada features like exceptions.
  For an example of a thick binding, may I modestly suggest you look
at the source code for Claw available at www.adapower.com
  The TriAda paper available at
www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/triadapaper/triada.html
has a discussion of some the decisions to be made for a thick, Ada-style,
binding.  Also, IEEE Std 1003.5-1992, on the Ada binding to POSIX,
also discusses many of these issues.