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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: C to Ada
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>>>>> "rodkay" == rodkay  <rodkay@dodo.com.au> writes:

    rodkay>    These attempt to generate Ada bindings to both C and
    rodkay> C++ libraries.  The 'ada' module is for any Ada compiler,
    rodkay> and produces bindings based on a 'proxy' approach. The
    rodkay> 'gnat' compiler targets the GNAT family of compilers, and
    rodkay> produces Ada types and objects which are the binary
    rodkay> equivalent of their corresponding C/C++ types.

I am still not clear on the difference - what is the 'proxy' approach?

Can I assume that the GNAT target uses GNAT specific features and
won't work without GNAT??
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>