B.4 Package Interfaces and Children

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Package Interfaces and its descendents provide facilities for interfacing with routines written in other languages, including Export, Import and Convention pragmas.

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This diagram depicts package Interfaces and its descendent children and grandchildren.

The C, COBOL and Fortran packages provide Ada types with representations that match the standard conventions of those languages, and related facilities that permit convenient multi-lingual programming.

The C.Pointers generic package allows Ada programmers to perform C-style operations on pointers. The C.Strings package makes it possible for an Ada program to allocate, reference, update and free C-style strings.

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