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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Interfacing ADA to C++ classes with parameters
Date: 03 Apr 2002 14:01:02 -0500
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"John Haddon" <jf_haddon@QinetiQ.com> writes:

> Dear All,
> 
> I'm having a problem writing an interface to a C++ class in which I want to
> pass a parameter in addition to the object. 

Interfacing directly to C++ is _not_ defined for Ada. You can make it
work, as you have discovered. However, a better approach is to export
functions from C++ using "extern C", and then import them to Ada using
"Import (C, ...)".

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