From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:47:30 -0500
Date: 2002-06-10T13:47:30-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D04F442.741C386C@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u_fM8.215645$Po6.363686@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net
> In fact this is not an error in C. Programs can (and do) intentionally
> index past the end of arrays. I have seen C code that allocates memory
But more often it's not intentional, it's a bug.
And the Ada compiler will tell you so, sometimes
during compile, sometimes during execution.
> > to make all implicit C conversions explicit in Ada.
>
> I disagree, direct translation is possible. The order of conversions in C
> is explicitly defined. The translation would have to turn these implicit
> conversions into explicit conversions. Again, a review of the translated
But doing so would be hiding bugs. Not all implicit
conversions in C are intended by the programmer.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-03 9:26 Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler Henrik Quintel
2002-06-03 18:52 ` Ingo Marks
2002-06-04 6:40 ` Henrik Quintel
2002-06-04 14:11 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-04 14:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-04 16:38 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-03 20:26 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-04 6:43 ` Henrik Quintel
2002-06-04 14:18 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-06-07 3:48 ` Richard Riehle
2002-06-07 12:46 ` SteveD
2002-06-07 13:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-09 21:43 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-10 13:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-11 12:52 ` SteveD
2002-06-11 13:32 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-12 14:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-12 13:21 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-07 13:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-07 19:48 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-07 20:26 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-08 3:19 ` SteveD
2002-06-08 3:59 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-08 4:14 ` Darren New
2002-06-08 4:50 ` SteveD
2002-06-08 12:04 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-10 18:44 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-10 19:23 ` Darren New
2002-06-10 20:55 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-10 21:03 ` Darren New
2002-06-08 4:46 ` SteveD
2002-06-08 12:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-08 18:46 ` SteveD
2002-06-10 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-11 16:38 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-11 17:27 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-12 13:18 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-10 18:47 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-06-10 21:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-10 20:59 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-10 21:37 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-10 22:34 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-08 12:06 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-08 15:53 ` Richard Riehle
2002-06-08 15:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-10 13:37 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-10 23:32 ` Darren New
2002-06-11 13:11 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-12 15:42 ` Darren New
2002-06-21 17:23 ` David Thompson
2002-06-08 17:45 ` tmoran
2002-06-08 18:32 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-09 17:41 ` Richard Riehle
2002-06-10 8:11 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-06-08 20:06 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-09 17:49 ` Richard Riehle
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