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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Help interfacing C
Date: 2000/07/26
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tmoran@bix.com writes:
> > int  zzz_VaSend (zzz_mbox_cap mbox_c, int send_type,
> >                  int flag, int len, char *buf , char *va_list, ...);
> 
> You could use overloading
>   function f(some_params:some_type; a:another_type);
>   function f(some_params:some_type; a,b:another_type);
>   function f(some_params:some_type; a,b,c:another_type);
> That works well if you usually only have a few items in the variable
> parameter list.

If the overloaded function f is interfaced directly to zzz_VaSend(),
this will work only if the C implementation passes ordinary arguments
and variable (stdarg) arguments the same way.  This is probably true
of many, but not all, implementations.

On the other hand, assuming a C function like this:

    int f(some_type arg1, ...);

you could do something like this:

    function F1(Arg1: Some_Type)
        return Interfaces.C.int;
    pragma Import(C, F1);

    function F2(Arg1: Some_Type; Arg2: Another_Type)
        return Interfaces.C.int;
    pragma Import(C, F2);

    function F3(Arg1: Some_Type; Arg2, Arg3: Another_Type)
        return Interfaces.C.int;
    pragma Import(C, F3);

    -- Use renaming declarations to overload F1, F2, F3 as F

and in C:

    int f1(some_type arg1)
    {
        return f(arg1);
    }

    int f2(some_type arg1, another_type arg2)
    {
        return f(arg1, arg2);
    }

    int f3(some_type arg1, another_type arg2, another_type arg3)
    {
        return f(arg1, arg2, arg3);
    }

-- 
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