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From: William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: ada -> C translator
Date: 1997/04/09
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Date: 1997-04-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Fergus Henderson wrote:
> <snip>
> It is true that interfacing to COBOL or Fortran cannot be done in
> a portable manner using C.  I've already acknowledged that.
> However, an Ada compiler is not required to support that;
> such support is optional.
> <snip>

For Fortran you can probably do it for a wide variety of platforms by
supporting F2C or NAG's F90 to C compiler. If you rely on gcc for your C
compiler I suspect that you could also support g77.

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