From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:59:24 -0500
Date: 2002-06-10T15:59:24-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D05132C.3B45562F@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: RsoOr63l7dRN@eisner.encompasserve.org
> It seems to me making the implicit conversions into expliccit conversions
> would be "unhiding" them. Some standard comment text to indicate an
> unreviewed conversion could be inserted in the output source.
What I'm saying is that in C, implicit conversions
are three kinds:
1. Intentional documented implementation decisions
2. Intentional undocumented implementation decisions
3. Careless mistakes, whether harmful or not.
An automatic translator cannot tell the difference.
Usually, neither can a human translator. Making
all of them explicit conversions hides the bugs
unless you comment them as you say.
Not making any explicit will show all the bugs,
but it forces you to identify and fix all the
ones that are not bugs before you can compile.
--
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
2002-06-10 21:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-10 20:59 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
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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