Re: Robert Dewar: What is the SGI bindings generator?

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:

> In article <_jJW2.702$2j3.2340@clnws01.we.mediaone.net>,
>   pmartin@nospam (Pascal F. Martin) wrote:
> > So, you propose to use a tool that is _not_ available ?
> 
> No, actually we propose to work on making it available.
> 
> > Sounds like the usual Ada story: "we do wonderful stuff
> > with Ada but, of course, we cannot talk about it.."
> 
> The story here is simply that SGI has not had the resources to
> productize this tool. ACT is hoping to be able to take over this
> work, and make this tool available some time in the future. A
> significant amount of work is required, because the current version
> is based on a proprietary C++ front end which cannot be distributed.
> So the first task is to integrate the tool with g++

Here's a vote from a potential customer for doing the work. There are
several people here writing C++ code using g++, and I'd like to be
able to gradually wean them to Ada. Having a binding generator so I
can easily integrate new Ada code with the current C++, using all the
current functionality, would be great. That would make it easier for
me to get funding for ACT support.

-- Stephen Leake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
> 
> Robert Dewar
> Ada Core Technologies
> 
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