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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ann: Ada-Win32 bindings
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 09:10:04 +0200
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On 2018-08-04 02:20, alby.gamper@gmail.com wrote:

> I am pleased to announce the initial release of ADA bindings for the Win32 API

Since Win32Ada is no more public that is a welcome substitute.

Alas, to late for me. I already migrated from Win32Ada to hand-written 
small portions of Win32 API for the projects that used Win32Ada.

> Note: Their is still a bit of work to do in these bindings, specifically
> 1) Callbacks / function profiles need to be addressed (currently mapped to System.Address)
> 2) Handle inline functions ??
> 3) Better handling of Pre-processor macros ??

Yes, some are missing, e.g. MAKELANGID.

4. A- and W-forms should not be exposed, IMO. E.g. not 
CreateFileMappingA and CreateFileMapping but two overloaded 
CreateFileMapping.

5. The stuff like LPCSTR should be handled more intelligently. I know it 
is difficult, but input nul-terminated strings should also allow 
char_array (or wide equivalent) argument instead of a raw pointer to char.

6. NTSTATUS constants

7. Some Ada convenience calls, e.g.

Conversions FILTETIME <-> Ada.Calendar.Time

    procedure Raise_From_LastError
              (  ID     : Exception_ID;
                 Prefix : String     := "";
                 Error  : Error_Code := GetLastError
              );

Conversions NTSTATUS <-> ERROR_CODE etc.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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