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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Ada and C++ in the same binary, was: Re: Current status of Ada
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On 2016-06-16, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2016-06-16, Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Just to update, the FSF GCC 4.9.2, 5.4.0 and 6.1.0 do not compile any of
>>> the 64 bit targets, they all fail. They are missing patches from Google
>>> and I don't think they will ever get passed upstream.
>> 
>> Thanks for the update Luke.
>> 
>> Simon.
>> 
>> PS: And thanks for looking.
>> 
>
> A quick way around this is I could build it based on the Google source
> for4.9 and leave extracting the patches to spot to FSF for later. That
> would work.
>

Thanks Luke, but please don't go to any special effort on my behalf.

Having thought about the situation, I'm getting nervous once again about
the "special" :-( situation around Ada compilers given that I'm not
sure where some of this code might be used in the future.

My current thinking (as of this morning :-)) is to maybe write the low
level stuff in C++ (which is the code more likely to be used elsewhere)
and to do the high level stuff in Ada.

The problem is that I don't have any experience combining C++ and Ada
code in the same binary; in the past, I've only ever called plain C code
from Ada.

Does anyone know of any issues combining C++ and Ada code in the same
binary when using gcc and binutils ? Are there any conflicts with
exceptions for example ?

The primary use of such binaries would be on a Linux x86 (and maybe
ARM) platform.

Thanks,

Simon.

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