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From: sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Record representation : components order
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On Jul 6, 8:33=A0am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> writes:
> > For tcladashell, I have a Tcl script which generates a C program which
> > generates an Ada spec
>
> Recent versions of GNAT have the option -fdump-ada-spec which
> generates Ada specs from C and C++ headers. See chapter 25 in the GNAT
> User Guide.

Yes, but many people don't have this option yet. Also

* tcl.h isn't really meant to be read by humans, so Ada code generated
from it has similar characteristics, and I'd rather provide something
I know to be at least semi-readable and compilable;

* I'm not sure how settled -fdump-ada-spec is yet;

* in theory tcladashell is compiler-independent.