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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/04
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In article <dewar.860115718@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> To this you should add a fourth question:
> 
> 4. Do you want the C code to be portable?
> 
> If you get into the business of generating very low level C code, then
> it may well be highly target dependent (e.g. have made decisions about
> representation of primitive data items).

I was under the impression that ANSI C did not provide anything
equivalent to Ada tasking.  Therefore I thought that a translator
would have to choose between portability and feature completeness.

Larry Kilgallen