Re: Ada2C++

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

BRETTSYS1 wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a utility that will take Ada95 source and convert
> it into C++ source?

As mentioned in another note, we have compilation technology that does
some of this.  We offer a service, where we will convert Ada to
C/C++ (it is configurable whether we use any C++ features in the output).
The output includes the original Ada comments and the original Ada
variables names, etc.  We take advantage of the C++ "namespace" feature
if requested.  The code is properly indented, and makes use of C control
structures like while, switch, etc.  This translation service is priced on a 
per-thousand-line-of-code basis.  Contact us for more details.

We also have a version of our Ada95 compiler that uses optimized ANSI C
as its intermediate representation.  This allows you to continue
to program in Ada indefinitely, while using an off-the-shelf C compiler
to do the final object code generation.  This allows you to use Ada
on platforms where there is no other Ada offering, and/or allows
you to integrate easily with other code being written in C or C++.
There are validated versions of this AdaMagic-with-C-intermediate
compiler for Analog Devices SHARC/Eonic Virtuoso and for Sun SPARC/Solaris.

We have an analogous offering that uses Java byte codes as its intermediate
representation, with similar benefits.

> 
> Thanks
> brett
> 
> brettsys1@aol.com

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