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Ada bindings for C interfaces: Lessons learned from the florist implementation

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Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '97 (Ada-Europe 1997)

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Abstract

There is an acknowledged need for wider availability of Ada application program interfaces to commercial off-the-shelf software components. One instance of work that is being done to address this need is Florist, the most recent in a series of implementations of the standard POSIX Ada bindings. Experiences with Florist and its predecessors illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of some of the available techniques for implementing an Ada binding based on an existing C-language API.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, 32306-4019, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    T. P. Baker & Dong- Ik Oh

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Keith Hardy Jim Briggs

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Baker, T.P., Oh, D.I. (1997). Ada bindings for C interfaces: Lessons learned from the florist implementation. In: Hardy, K., Briggs, J. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '97. Ada-Europe 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63114-3_2

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