Ada Programming/Libraries/Interfaces

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The Interfaces package helps in interfacing with other programming languages. Ada is one of the few languages where interfacing with other languages is part of the language standard. The language standard defines the interfaces for C, Cobol and Fortran. Of course any implementation might define further interfaces — GNAT for example defines an interface to C++.

Interfacing with other languages is actually provided by pragma Export, pragma Import and pragma Convention

Child Packages

• Interfaces.C
  • Interfaces.C.Extensions (GNAT)
  • Interfaces.C.Pointers
  • Interfaces.C.Streams (GNAT)
  • Interfaces.C.Strings
• Interfaces.CPP (GNAT)
• Interfaces.COBOL
• Interfaces.Fortran
• Interfaces.OS2Lib (GNAT, OS/2)
  • Interfaces.OS2Lib.Errors (GNAT, OS/2)
  • Interfaces.OS2Lib.Synchronization (GNAT, OS/2)
  • Interfaces.OS2Lib.Threads (GNAT, OS/2)
• Interfaces.Packed_Decimal (GNAT)
• Interfaces.VxWorks (GNAT, VxWorks)
  • Interfaces.VxWorks.IO (GNAT, VxWorks)

See also

Wikibook

• Ada Programming
• Ada Programming/Libraries
• Ada Programming/Libraries/Standard
• Ada Programming/Libraries/Ada
• Ada Programming/Libraries/System

Ada Reference Manual

Ada 95

• Annex B Interface to Other Languages (Annotated)
• B.2 The Package Interfaces (Annotated)

Ada 2005

• Annex B Interface to Other Languages (Annotated)
• B.2 The Package Interfaces (Annotated)