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- From: andersen@liswsd.llnl.gov (Roger Andersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Calling Ada from 'C': Ada main unnecessary in VAX/VMS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.103855.1@liswsd.llnl.gov>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 18:38:55 GMT
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- In article <BywpEx.J9n@gdls.CSCTMD.COM>, tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Tool Stud)
- writes:
- > 2. If your main program is in C and you are only using Ada for support
- > you will still need to "start" the C program from within Ada.
- >
- I'll just point out here that this is not true in VAX/VMS. I call Ada packages
- from C without having to start with an Ada main. Any Ada package elaborations
- are all done by the time I hit "main(int argc, char *argv[])". (Thank you,
- DEC.)
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