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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Date: 1999/11/28
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On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:37:18 +0100, Tarjei Jensen
<tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote: 

>I'm working on a Ada binding to the socket API. Progress is very slow since I
>only do this in my less than copious spare time.

Are you intending to release this under the modified GPL? If so you probably
want to build it on top of the AdaSockets (http://www-inf.enst.fr/ANC/)
binding by Sam Tardieu.

>I have discovered that is Ada vendors that supported interface.c were required
>to supply basic datatypes like size_t, time_t for the C libraries, then life
>would be easier.

I think those sort of things are more in a POSIX stylee...

- Aidan
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