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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,5afd69f1373c41cc X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!y7g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interfacing with C ; an ununsed fields dilemma Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5a416858-4a52-412d-8051-6dadb5eadb2c@t21g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <52ec9991-ece0-4e36-acfc-367fa37b15eb@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.75.149.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246576877 14626 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2009 23:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y7g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.75.149.197; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6813 Date: 2009-07-02T16:21:17-07:00 List-Id: On 2 juil, 16:52, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Why? > > You might not *have* to do it, but instead you might actually *want* > to do it. > A number of libraries were exposed to Ada this way with *benefit* to > everybody, so it is not something that should be religiously avoided. > > -- > Maciej Sobczak *www.msobczak.com*www.inspirel.com > > Database Access Library for Ada:www.inspirel.com/soci-ada Not religiously, just beceause I think this would be more difficult. May be I'm wrong, but it seems to me that there is not real standard ABI for C++ (for the comment in passing)