Can you call C++ functions from Ada?
I’m wondering if there is a way to do this directly, without doing the implementation in C and writing a C++ wrapper & and Ada wrapper, e.g. I would like to go c++ -> Ada rather than c++ -> c -> Ada.
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Can you call C++ functions from Ada?
I’m wondering if there is a way to do this directly, without doing the implementation in C and writing a C++ wrapper & and Ada wrapper, e.g. I would like to go c++ -> Ada rather than c++ -> c -> Ada.
The problem with Ada to C++ is that C++ does NOT have a defined ABI.
Each compiler is allowed to define the most effecient ABI it can.
Thus interfacing from other languages (Ada) is a pain as you would need your Ada compiler to know which compiler the C++ was compiled with before it could generate the correct code to call any C++ method/function.
On the other hand the C ABI is well defined a standard across all compilers and as such provides a nice convenient interface for any language to connect with.