Interfacing low-level C device drivers with Ada 95

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Interfacing low-level C device drivers with Ada 95

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Annual International Conference on Ada archive
Proceedings of the 1999 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada table of contents

Redondo Beach, California, United States

Pages: 133 - 143

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-127-5

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Steven Doran

Litton Guidance & Control Systems, 550 Canoga Ave, Woodland Hills CA

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SIGCAS: ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
SIGBIO: ACM Special Interest Group on Biomedical Computing
SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The personal computer hardware marketplace has grown rapidly in recent years. Many software projects, as a cost-cutting measure, are buying "off-the-self" items to meet heir hardware requirements. Almost all of the device drivers for these devices are written in the C programming language. However, the selection of the programming language for the project does not need to be confined to C. This paper details the powerful tools in Ada 95, such as pragmas to interface code written in other programming languages to Ada 95 applications. An example of a generic real-time Ada 95 application interfacing with a low-level C serial device driver is used to aid the reader in the concepts and idea's discussed in the paper.

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