From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce1e7170ab2bc91c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-28 08:38:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Corey Ashford" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <_pNv6.15345$ue1.1278082@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3AC0BB04.CF7F3631@west.raytheon.com> Subject: Re: Why do so many companies use Apex? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:30:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.176.37.106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 985797022 24.176.37.106 (Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:30:22 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:30:22 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6163 Date: 2001-03-28T16:30:22+00:00 List-Id: "Phaedrus" wrote in message news:Un5w6.1633$aP5.137062@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net... [snip] > And not allowing C/C++ code to call Ada, and not allowing Ada to > call C++... *sigh* [snip] Apex Duo allows Ada calling C++ and C++ calling Ada, at least for scalar and pointer types parameters. There are several of language features (pragma import, pragma calling_convention, pragma export) that allow this to work. Even just Apex Ada (not Duo) can work with the host C/C++ compiler, and gcc for that matter. It's just more convenient to use the Apex C/C++ compiler because of the build management system.